The word penknife 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.)

  • penknife n. (Archaic) Originally a small utility knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds into nibs…
  • penknife n. (Dated) A small knife designed for safe and convenient storage, typically in the form of a miniature…
  • penknife n. As the need to cut nibs for pens fell away, but small utility pocket-knives remained popular, "penknife"…

39 valid words from 3 definitions

AND ARCHAIC AS AWAY BUT CONVENIENT CUT CUTTING DATED DESIGNED FEATHERS FELL FOR FORM IN INTO KNIFE KNIVES MINIATURE NEED NIBS OF OR ORIGINALLY PENKNIFE PENS POCKET POINTS POPULAR QUILL REEDS REMAINED SAFE SMALL STORAGE THE TO TYPICALLY UTILITY

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

EN FE IF KNIFE NIFE PE PEN PENK

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

EF FIN FINK IN INK NE NEP

Scrabble scoring

  • 17 points.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)
  • No anagrams can be formed with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word and an extra letter.)
  • No anagrams can be formed by removing a letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word minus a letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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