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Yes. The word pern is a Scrabble US word. The word pern is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

P3E1R1N1

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Yes. The word pern is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

P3E1R1N1

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4-letter words (1 found)

PERN,

3-letter words (7 found)

ERN,NEP,PEN,PER,PRE,REN,REP,

2-letter words (5 found)

EN,ER,NE,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of pern

pern eprn pren rpen erpn repn penr epnr pner nper enpr nepr prne rpne pnre npre rnpe nrpe ernp renp enrp nerp rnep nrep

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Definitions and meaning of pern

pern

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɜː(ɹ)n/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

Presumably from a verb pern, a variant of preen, from Middle English prene; pernyng is read by some editors in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (v. 611) and interpreted as the present participle of this verb, also reflected dialectally as pirn (“reel; bobbin”). See also pirl.

Noun

pern (plural perns)

  1. Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.
Derived terms
  • perne (verb)
  • perning

Etymology 2

19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).

Noun

pern (plural perns)

  1. A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus.
Translations

Etymology 3

See pernancy.

Verb

pern (third-person singular simple present perns, present participle perning, simple past and past participle perned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take profit of; to make profitable.

References

“pern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Cimbrian

Noun

pern

  1. plural of per

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian perno.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛrn/

Noun

pern m (plural perni or prun)

  1. hinge, axis
  2. pin
  3. pivot
  4. trunnion

Source: wiktionary.org