PANDECT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. PANDECT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PANDECT?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PANDECT is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PANDECT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pandectsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PANDECT scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in PANDECT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 257,323.
What does PANDECT mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
A complete treatise on a subject, or the full body of a country's laws.
Pandect is best known as the title for Justinian's great digest of Roman law in fifty books. In a wider sense it can name any all-embracing handbook that tries to cover a subject from end to end.
How PANDECT is used
Pandect is a formal, scholarly word used in legal history and for encyclopedic works.
- The scholar spent years studying the Roman pandect.
- The book was meant to be a pandect of medieval medicine.
- A pandect of the nation's laws was finally printed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PANDECT and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PANDECT
3 longer words begin with PANDECT.
Shorter words from the letters in PANDECT
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Common questions about PANDECT
- Is PANDECT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PANDECT, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PANDECT worth?
- PANDECT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PANDECT mean?
- A complete treatise on a subject, or the full body of a country's laws.
- What letters can be added to PANDECT?
- PANDECT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of PANDECT:
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