EPARCH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. EPARCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EPARCH?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EPARCH is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EPARCH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EPARCH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in EPARCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does EPARCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A bishop who governs a diocese in an Eastern Christian church, or an ancient or modern Greek provincial governor.
In the Byzantine and later Greek world an eparch was an official in charge of a province, and the word still has this civil sense in some histories. Today it is most often met in church life, where an eparch leads an eparchy, which is the Eastern counterpart of a Western diocese. The term is Greek and means ruler over a district. Readers of Eastern Catholic news will find the word used in the title of a bishop.
How EPARCH is used
Specialised; used in church reporting and in histories of the Greek and Byzantine world.
- The eparch blessed the new parish church.
- A Byzantine eparch once governed the whole district.
- The eparch of the region will visit in the spring.
- She wrote a paper about a city eparch in late antiquity.
- The clergy gathered to welcome their new eparch.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EPARCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EPARCH
The 6 tiles of EPARCH in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with EPARCH
6 longer words begin with EPARCH.
Shorter words from the letters in EPARCH
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Common questions about EPARCH
- Is EPARCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EPARCH, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EPARCH worth?
- EPARCH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EPARCH mean?
- A bishop who governs a diocese in an Eastern Christian church, or an ancient or modern Greek provincial governor.
- What letters can be added to EPARCH?
- EPARCH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of EPARCH:
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