PAP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PAP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PAP?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAP is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PAP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 17,967.
What stands out about PAP
- PAP is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PAP mean in Scrabble?
noun
Soft food for infants or invalids.
Pap is a nursery word by sound and it turned into an insult by extension: writing described this way is soft and asks nothing of anybody. In southern Africa the same three letters name maize porridge, and there the word carries no judgement whatever.
How PAP is used
Uncountable. Disparaging in the figurative sense.
- The whole article was pap and ran to four pages.
- A bowl of pap and a spoon was the entire meal.
- In South Africa pap is maize porridge and nothing else.
- He was fed pap for a fortnight after the operation.
- Calling a book pap is a judgement about effort.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PAP
The 3 tiles of PAP in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PAP
Showing 24 of 193 words that begin with PAP.
Words ending in PAP
1 words end in PAP. Useful as a back hook: play PAP onto a word already on the board.
Words with PAP inside
Showing 24 of 72 words that contain PAP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PAP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PAP
Common questions about PAP
- Is PAP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAP, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAP worth?
- PAP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAP mean?
- Soft food for infants or invalids.
- What letters can be added to PAP?
- PAP takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PAP:
Open PAP in the Word Finder