PARDY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PARDY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARDY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARDY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARDY
No single letter turns PARDY into another word.
How PARDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PARDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does PARDY mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaic
An old exclamation used to affirm or emphasise a statement, roughly meaning indeed or truly.
Pardy began as an alteration of the French oath par dieu, meaning by God, and English writers softened it into a mild interjection rather than a genuine oath. Medieval and Renaissance authors dropped pardy into speech to add emphasis, much as a modern speaker might say indeed or truly enough. Over time the expression fell out of everyday use and now appears mainly when writers deliberately imitate older English. Several spellings of the same interjection existed side by side, including pardie and perdy.
How PARDY is used
Archaic; found in older literature and in writing that imitates historical speech rather than in modern conversation.
- Pardy, said the old man, that is no small matter.
- The character exclaims pardy whenever she is surprised.
- Pardy, thought I, this tale grows stranger by the hour.
- The translator kept pardy to preserve the flavour of the original.
- He answered with a hearty pardy and nothing more.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in PARDY
1 words end in PARDY. Useful as a back hook: play PARDY onto a word already on the board.
Words with PARDY inside
1 words contain PARDY in the middle. Words that start with PARDY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PARDY
Common questions about PARDY
- Is PARDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARDY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARDY worth?
- PARDY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARDY mean?
- An old exclamation used to affirm or emphasise a statement, roughly meaning indeed or truly.
- What letters can be added to PARDY?
- No single letter can be added to PARDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PARDY:
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