ARPENT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ARPENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARPENT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARPENT is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARPENT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARPENT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ARPENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,550.
What stands out about ARPENT
- The same 6 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARPENT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A historical French unit of land area, close to a modern acre, once used to survey farms and estates in France and its former colonies.
Before France adopted the metric system, the arpent served as the everyday way of measuring farmland, vineyards and forests, and its size varied slightly from one region to another. French settlers carried the arpent across the Atlantic, and old land grants around Quebec and the Mississippi valley still describe property in arpent rather than acres. In some of those same regions the word could also describe a length of roughly one hundred and ninety feet rather than an area, which sometimes confuses modern readers of old deeds. Historians and land surveyors researching colonial records still need to know how many square metres an arpent represents.
How ARPENT is used
Chiefly a historical term, encountered today in old land deeds, surveys and place names from former French territories.
- The old deed measured the farm at three arpents along the riverbank.
- Colonial surveyors in Louisiana recorded plots in arpent rather than acres.
- An arpent of vineyard was enough to support a small family.
- The archivist explained how an arpent differs from a modern acre.
- Narrow farms of a single arpent still shape the land near the river.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARPENT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARPENT
The 6 tiles of ARPENT in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with ARPENT
1 longer words begin with ARPENT.
Shorter words from the letters in ARPENT
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Common questions about ARPENT
- Is ARPENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARPENT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARPENT worth?
- ARPENT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARPENT mean?
- A historical French unit of land area, close to a modern acre, once used to survey farms and estates in France and its former colonies.
- What letters can be added to ARPENT?
- ARPENT takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ARPENT:
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