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What does nankeen mean? Is nankeen a Scrabble word?

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Is nankeen a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word nankeen is a Scrabble US word. The word nankeen is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is nankeen a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word nankeen is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

N1A1N1K5E1E1N1

Is nankeen a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word nankeen is a Words With Friends word. The word nankeen is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

N2A1N2K5E1E1N2

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7-letter words (1 found)

NANKEEN,

5-letter words (1 found)

AKENE,

4-letter words (6 found)

AKEE,KANE,KEEN,KNEE,NANE,NENE,

3-letter words (15 found)

AKE,ANE,ANN,EAN,EEK,EEN,EKE,ENE,KAE,KEA,KEN,NAE,NAN,NEE,NEK,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AN,EA,EE,EN,KA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from nankeen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of nankeen

nankeen

Etymology

Eye spelling of Nanking, itself a romanization of Chinese 南京 (Nánjīng, literally “Southern capital”).

Noun

nankeen (countable and uncountable, plural nankeens)

  1. A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
    • 1885, L. and A. Maude (translators), Leo Tolstoy, "What Men Live By", in What Men Live By and Other Tales
      He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat.
    • c. 1910-1920, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Seltzer (translator), A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
      She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated.

Derived terms

  • nankeen kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
  • nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus, also nankeen bird, nankeen crane, nankeen heron)

Source: wiktionary.org