Definition of PENCHANT

penchant

Meanings

Plural: penchants

Noun

  • a strong liking
    • "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"
  • Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
  • A card game resembling bezique.
  • In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Origin / Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).

Scrabble Score: 15

penchant is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
penchant is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
penchant is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

penchant is a valid Words With Friends word