PANDAN is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PANDAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PANDAN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PANDAN is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PANDAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PANDAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PANDAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 275,938.
What does PANDAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A tropical plant of Southeast Asia whose long, narrow leaves are woven into mats or used to flavour food.
In Asian cooking the fragrant leaves of the pandan are tied in knots and simmered with rice, or blended into desserts for their green colour and vanilla-like scent. Elsewhere the same plant, a screw pine with stilt roots, supplies fibre for roofing, baskets and mats. The word is Malay in origin.
How PANDAN is used
Used in cookery and in descriptions of tropical plants.
- A single pandan leaf perfumes a whole pot of rice.
- They wove the dried pandan into sleeping mats.
- Pandan cake is bright green and lightly sweet.
- The pandan grew in thick clumps near the shore.
- The stall sold coconut jelly flavoured with pandan.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PANDAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PANDAN
6 longer words begin with PANDAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PANDAN
Common questions about PANDAN
- Is PANDAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PANDAN, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PANDAN worth?
- PANDAN is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PANDAN mean?
- A tropical plant of Southeast Asia whose long, narrow leaves are woven into mats or used to flavour food.
- What letters can be added to PANDAN?
- PANDAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PANDAN:
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