Definitions for penchants

penchants pen·chant

Spelling: [pen-chuh nt; French pahn-s
IPA: /ˈpɛn tʃənt; French pɑ̃ˈʃɑ̃/

Penchants is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 478 anagrams from letters in penchants (acehnnpst).

Definitions for penchants

noun

  1. a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something:

Origin of penchants

1665-75; French, noun use of present participle of pencher to incline, lean Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, derivative of Latin pendēre to hang

Examples for penchants

If he have a penchant for outdoor life, then the32 choice, in a way, is easy.

Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.

The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes.

Unlike his falsetto and his "cool dad" penchant for fedoras, this rumored affair is just so not cute.

This penchant for medical internationalism goes back to the greatest icon of the revolution, Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Reality-show deal aside, Weeks has a penchant for talking about her poverty.

Let this be a warning for rich men who have a penchant for younger women—they can be quite jealous.

What a penchant all our honest detectives have for gems, and where do they get them?

The man has a penchant for short and nervous sentences, but they are never jerky.

It had come to be an accepted joke with them, that penchant of Piney's for Italy.

Word Value for penchants
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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