PAREGORIC is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. PAREGORIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PAREGORIC?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAREGORIC is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAREGORIC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
paregoricsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAREGORIC scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in PAREGORIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PAREGORIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PAREGORIC mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A soothing medicine made from opium flavoured with camphor and aniseed, formerly given for pain, coughs and diarrhoea.
Old household remedies often relied on paregoric, which was even given to children in earlier times. The word itself comes from a Greek term for soothing, and as an adjective it describes anything that eases pain. Modern medicine has largely replaced it, so it now belongs mostly to history books and period fiction.
How PAREGORIC is used
Mostly found in historical or medical contexts describing old remedies.
- The nurse measured out a spoonful of paregoric for the coughing child.
- Nineteenth-century households kept paregoric in the medicine cupboard.
- He took a dose of paregoric to calm his troubled stomach.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAREGORIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PAREGORIC
1 longer words begin with PAREGORIC.
Shorter words from the letters in PAREGORIC
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Common questions about PAREGORIC
- Is PAREGORIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAREGORIC, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAREGORIC worth?
- PAREGORIC is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAREGORIC mean?
- A soothing medicine made from opium flavoured with camphor and aniseed, formerly given for pain, coughs and diarrhoea.
- What letters can be added to PAREGORIC?
- PAREGORIC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of PAREGORIC:
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