PAREN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PAREN 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 PAREN?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAREN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAREN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAREN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PAREN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does PAREN mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An informal short form of parenthesis, one of a pair of round brackets used to set off extra material in text.
Programmers and editors often say paren instead of parenthesis when they mean a single round bracket character rather than the punctuation mark as a general concept. The word is almost always used in the plural, parens, to refer to an opening and a closing bracket together. It began as a spoken shorthand in printing and computing circles and later found its way into informal writing. Formal prose still prefers the full word parenthesis.
How PAREN is used
Informal; common in editing, typesetting and programming talk, rare in formal prose.
- Close the paren before you save the file.
- She forgot a paren in the formula and the code broke.
- Put the year in parens after the author's name.
- The editor circled the missing paren in red ink.
- He counted every open paren against every closed one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAREN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PAREN
The 5 tiles of PAREN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PAREN
Showing 24 of 37 words that begin with PAREN.
Words with PAREN inside
Showing 24 of 55 words that contain PAREN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PAREN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PAREN
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Common questions about PAREN
- Is PAREN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAREN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAREN worth?
- PAREN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAREN mean?
- An informal short form of parenthesis, one of a pair of round brackets used to set off extra material in text.
- What letters can be added to PAREN?
- PAREN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PAREN:
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