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Is hend a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hend is a Scrabble US word. The word hend is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

H4E1N1D2

Is hend a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hend is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

H4E1N1D2

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4-letter words (1 found)

HEND,

3-letter words (5 found)

DEN,EDH,END,HEN,NED,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,ED,EH,EN,HE,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from hend according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hend

hend

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛnd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd

Etymology 1

From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”).

Verb

hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)

  1. (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English hende, from Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī.

Adjective

hend

  1. (obsolete, poetic) Pleasant in manner, courteous, gentle, kind.

Anagrams

  • Dehn

Alemannic German

Verb

hend

  1. third-person plural present of haa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hend n (definite singular hendet, indefinite plural hend, definite plural henda)

  1. (rare) alternative form of hende n

Participle

hend (neuter hendt, definite singular and plural hende)

  1. past participle of henda

Verb

hend

  1. imperative of henda
  2. (non-standard since 2012) supine of henda

References

  • “hend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Alternative forms

  • hent

Etymology

From Middle English henden, henten, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan, from Proto-West Germanic *handijan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛnd/, /hɛnt/

Verb

hend

  1. to hold

Derived terms

  • henteen

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46

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