Definitions for pekans

pekans pek·an

Spelling: [pek-uh n]
IPA: /ˈpɛk ən/

Pekans is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in pekans (aeknps).

Definitions for pekans

noun

  1. the fisher, Martes pennanti.

Origin of pekans

1710-20, Americanism; Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan Eastern Abenaki (French spelling) pékané

Examples for pekans

If pekan is hungry he doesn't hesitate to dine on Porcupine.

Later, a pekan, sometimes called a fisher, killed another one.

While mink and otter are about, the trapper will waste no steel-traps on pekan.

It is known as the wood-shock or pekan, and is also called the black cat, and fisher.

Without a pause, the pekan deliberately sprang out into the air and disappeared in a snow bank full forty feet below.

It was because pekan is almost the only one Prickly Porky has reason to fear.

It is the otchœk of the Crees, and the pekan of the Canadians.

Bobby Coon is a good fighter and much bigger and heavier than pekan, but he is no match for pekan.

He had instantly thought that she meant that pekan was right there somewhere.

A third had caught a pekan; but the prisoner had been worried and torn to atoms.

Word Value for pekans
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

Similar words for pekans
Word of the day