KYNDE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. KYNDE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept KYNDE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KYNDE is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KYNDE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KYNDE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KYNDE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does KYNDE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An archaic Middle English spelling of kind, used mainly to mean a person's or thing's inborn nature.
Medieval and early Renaissance writers wrote kynde where a modern author would write kind, using it for a creature's essential nature rather than for politeness. Middle English poems speak of things acting after their kynde, meaning they behave according to what they naturally are. Modern English kept the everyday sense of kind but dropped this older spelling, so kynde now survives mainly in editions of early texts and in word lists drawn from them.
How KYNDE is used
Turns up chiefly in glossaries and footnotes to medieval texts, not in modern sentences apart from quoting kynde directly.
- The footnote glosses kynde simply as nature in this context.
- Medieval scribes wrote kynde where later printers put kind.
- The poem says a wolf follows its kynde, meaning its animal nature.
- Editors keep the spelling kynde in scholarly editions rather than modernising it.
- A glossary at the back of the book explains kynde for readers unfamiliar with Middle English.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KYNDE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KYNDE
2 longer words begin with KYNDE.
Shorter words from the letters in KYNDE
Common questions about KYNDE
- Is KYNDE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KYNDE is not in it.
- How many points is KYNDE worth?
- KYNDE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KYNDE mean?
- An archaic Middle English spelling of kind, used mainly to mean a person's or thing's inborn nature.
- What letters can be added to KYNDE?
- KYNDE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KYNDE:
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