Definitions for pekan

pekan pek·an

Spelling: [pek-uh n]
IPA: /ˈpɛk ən/

Pekan is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in pekan (aeknp).

Definitions for pekan

noun

  1. the fisher, Martes pennanti.

Origin of pekan

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

Examples for pekan

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for pekan
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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