kennel
/ˈkɛn.əl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "– We want to look at the dog kennels. – That's the pet department, second floor."
- "A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write, Of fals double tunges in the diſpite."
- "The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays."
- "She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel."
- "A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!"
- "A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid."
Etymology
PIE word *ḱwṓ From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.