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Is blench a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word blench is a Scrabble US word. The word blench is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is blench a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word blench is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

B3L1E1N1C3H4

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6-letter words (1 found)

BLENCH,

5-letter words (3 found)

BELCH,BENCH,BLECH,

4-letter words (2 found)

BHEL,LECH,

3-letter words (7 found)

BEL,BEN,CEL,CHE,ECH,HEN,NEB,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,CH,EH,EL,EN,HE,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 21 words from blench according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of blench

blench

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blɛnt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English blench and blenchen, from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).

Verb

blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)

  1. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
    • 1998, Andrew Hurley (translator), Jorge Louis Borges, "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255
      "This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."
  2. (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
  3. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
  4. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  5. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  6. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.

Noun

blench (plural blenches)

  1. A deceit; a trick.
  2. A sidelong glance.

Descendants

  • blanch (avoid)

Etymology 2

From Old French blanchir (“to bleach”).

Verb

blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)

  1. (obsolete) To blanch.
Related terms
  • blench holding
  • unblenching

References

Middle English

Noun

blench

  1. A deceit; a trick.
    • c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.

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