PAISAN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PAISAN 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 PAISAN?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAISAN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAISAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAISAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PAISAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does PAISAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A fellow countryman, especially a fellow Italian, often used as a friendly term of address.
Paisan reached English through Italian immigrant communities in the United States, where it kept its original sense of someone from the same village or country while also loosening into a general term of warmth toward a friend or acquaintance. A person might greet an old neighbour from the same hometown as paisan, or use it more broadly for any fellow Italian American regardless of exact origin. The word carries an informal, familiar tone, closer to buddy or pal than to a neutral word like compatriot. It also shares its roots with the Spanish paisano, which carries a similar sense in Spanish-influenced English.
How PAISAN is used
Informal, used mainly among Italian Americans as a friendly term of address for a fellow countryman or close acquaintance.
- He greeted the old man from his village as paisan.
- Hey, paisan, come sit with us, one of the cousins called out.
- She still calls her childhood neighbour paisan after thirty years.
- The restaurant owner treated every regular customer like a paisan.
- They swapped stories about the old country like true paisans.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAISAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PAISAN
5 longer words begin with PAISAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PAISAN
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Common questions about PAISAN
- Is PAISAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAISAN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAISAN worth?
- PAISAN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAISAN mean?
- A fellow countryman, especially a fellow Italian, often used as a friendly term of address.
- What letters can be added to PAISAN?
- PAISAN takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PAISAN:
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