Definitions for fennec

fennec fen·nec

Spelling: [fen-ek]
IPA: /ˈfɛn ɛk/

Fennec is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in fennec (ceefnn).

Definitions for fennec

noun

  1. a small, pale yellowish-brown fox, Fennecus zerda, of northern Africa, having large, pointed ears.

Origin of fennec

1780-90; Arabic fanak Persian

Examples for fennec

The fennec spends the heat of the day comfortably curled up in its burrow, with its nose tucked away under its big bushy tail.

The fennec is a creature of the desert, and lives in burrows which it scoops out in the sand.

The above fennec was about ten inches long, the tail five inches and a quarter, near an inch of it on the tip, black.

And yet, correctly speaking, it was not a fox neither, but a fennec.

Word Value for fennec
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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