Definitions for penguin

penguin pen·guin

Spelling: [peng-gwin, pen-]
IPA: /ˈpɛŋ gwɪn, ˈpɛn-/

Penguin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in penguin (eginnpu).

Definitions for penguin

noun

  1. any of several flightless, aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.
  2. Obsolete. great auk.

Origin of penguin

1570-80; origin uncertain; perhaps Welsh pen gwyn literally, white head (referring to the great auk in its winter plumage); later misapplied to the Spheniscidae

Examples for penguin

The adjudication of the Daily Beast office was clear and emphatic: penguin, penguin, penguin.

The birds comprise a darter, a cormorant, a guillemot, and a penguin.

The boy feels rejected and confused, and then hits on a Christmas morning solution, delivering a penguin mate for his penguin.

The penguin's body serves as an oil-vessel, and the moss as a wick.

But there was no alternative, so the vessel was stranded on penguin Island.

Reprinted by arrangement with The penguin Press, a member of penguin Group (USA) LLC, A penguin Random House Company.

He'd had a penguin in a snowstorm and he'd been happy with it.

I now know these friends, in my thoughts of them, as penguin Persons.

This species of penguin was showered with positive coverage throughout the 20th century by a supposedly vigilant press.

Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of penguin Random House, LLC.

Word Value for penguin
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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