KERNE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. KERNE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KERNE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KERNE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KERNE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KERNE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KERNE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 31,687.
What does KERNE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaichistorical
A lightly armed foot soldier of medieval Ireland or the Scottish Highlands; by extension, an Irish peasant or countryman.
Kerne comes from an old Irish word for a band of foot soldiers, the ordinary fighters who served without the heavy armor and horses of the gentry. Writers in early modern England used kerne for the light Irish infantry they encountered during campaigns, and the same word slid over time into a looser, often dismissive label for an ordinary Irish countryman. The spelling kerne is one of several variants alongside kern, and both point back to the same military origin. Today the word survives almost entirely in historical writing about Ireland and the Elizabethan wars there.
How KERNE is used
Archaic and historical; met mainly in older accounts of Irish warfare rather than in current speech.
- A troop of kerne guarded the narrow pass into the valley.
- The chronicle describes the kerne as swift but lightly armed compared with the mounted gentry.
- He was dismissed by the English captain as nothing more than a common kerne.
- The old play casts a kerne among the Scottish soldiers gathered on the heath.
- Historians still argue over how the kerne were equipped in the fourteenth century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KERNE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KERNE
11 longer words begin with KERNE.
Words with KERNE inside
8 words contain KERNE in the middle. Words that start with KERNE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in KERNE
Common questions about KERNE
- Is KERNE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KERNE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KERNE worth?
- KERNE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KERNE mean?
- A lightly armed foot soldier of medieval Ireland or the Scottish Highlands; by extension, an Irish peasant or countryman.
- What letters can be added to KERNE?
- KERNE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KERNE:
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