Parvenus is valid Scrabble Word

Is parvenus a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is parvenus valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for PARVENUS in dictionary:

NOUN:

PARVENU, (French) one that has suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the manner associated with it
a person of humble origin who has gained wealth, influence, or celebrity

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

one who has suddenly risen above his class

Words related to PARVENUS

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How to use PARVENUS in a sentence

Under the cast-iron law of sale most of the original zemindars lost their estates, which passed into the hands of parvenus saturated with commercialism.
Besides which, as a matter of principle, I never put my trust in princes, except in the parvenus.
These parvenus have all the vices of the great lords of other days without their elegance.
New York is at present the paradise of parvenus, and these occasionally commit grotesque mistakes in the distribution of civilities.

Similar words containing PARVENU without suffix s

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