The word is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

• fend v. (Intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one’s own well-being.
• fend v. (Rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block…
• fend n. (Obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one’s own well-being.

25 valid words from 3 definitions

AS BEING BLOCK CARE CONSTRUED DEFEND EXCEPT FEND FOR INTRANSITIVE OBSOLETE OF ONE ONESELF OWN RARE RESPONSIBILITY SELF SUPPORT TAKE TAKING TO TYPICALLY WELL WITH

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

EN END FE FEN

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

EF NE NEF

20 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

BEND FAND FEED FENI FENS FENT FEOD FEUD FIND FOND FUND HEND LEND MEND PEND REND SEND TEND VEND WEND

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

END FED FEN

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

FIEND

10 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

FENDS FENDY FENDED FENDER FENDERS FENDIER FENDING FENDERED FENDIEST FENDERLESS

36 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

DEFENDS EFFENDI OFFENDS DEFENDED DEFENDER EFFENDIS FORFENDS OFFENDED OFFENDER DEFENDANT DEFENDERS DEFENDING FOREFENDS FORFENDED OFFENDERS OFFENDING REOFFENDS DEFENDABLE DEFENDANTS FOREFENDED FORFENDING OFFENDEDLY OFFENDRESS REOFFENDED REOFFENDER UNDEFENDED UNOFFENDED CODEFENDANT FOREFENDING HALFENDEALE REOFFENDERS REOFFENDING UNOFFENDING CODEFENDANTS HALFENDEALES OFFENDRESSES

5 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

DEFEND OFFEND FORFEND FOREFEND REOFFEND

5 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+I FIEND FINED
+S FENDS
+U UNFED
+Y FENDY

7 anagrams minus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-D FEN NEF
-F DEN END NED
-N DEF FED

Scrabble scoring

• 8 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

• Joker allowed, 1 in 58.5 chance (1.71%).
• Joker not allowed, 1 in 195 chance (0.51%).

Other languages

• Valid: French
• Invalid: German Spanish Italian Romanian
• (In French) FENDRE v. [cj. tendre].

Category without words

• No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)

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