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Is kest a Scrabble word?

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

K5E1S1T1

Is kest a Scrabble UK word?

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

K5E1S1T1

Is kest a Words With Friends word?

The word kest is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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4-letter words (4 found)

KEST,KETS,SEKT,SKET,

3-letter words (5 found)

EST,KET,SET,TES,TSK,

2-letter words (4 found)

ES,ET,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from kest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of kest

kest

English

Verb

kest (third-person singular simple present kests, present participle kesting, simple past and past participle kest)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cast.

Anagrams

  • Kets, TEKS, kets, sket

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly same root as in kesi, from Proto-Finnic *keci.

Noun

kest (genitive kesta, partitive kesta)

  1. husk, shell
  2. sheath
  3. envelope
  4. casing, housing
  5. hull

Inflection

Derived terms

  • võrkkest

Further reading

  • “kest”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “kest”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

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Noun

kest

  1. hunger

Source: wiktionary.org