Kenned
6 lettersverbrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Past tense of ken, meaning known or understood something, chiefly used in Scottish and dialectal English.
“She kenned the old ways of the village better than anyone else around.”
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Contains a double N and ends in -ED, a pattern shared with many common past-tense verbs
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K (5 pts) paired with a double N is tricky but the -ED suffix hooks cleanly onto existing board words
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