PARENS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PARENS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARENS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARENS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARENS
No single letter turns PARENS into another word.
How PARENS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PARENS, 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 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What does PARENS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Parentheses — round brackets, in the shorthand of editing and code.
Parens is what people say aloud when the full word takes too long, and programmers use it constantly because some languages are built almost entirely out of them. Editors say it too, and in both trades it is plural by default: a single one is half a pair and rarely worth naming.
How PARENS is used
Plural: in parens, close the parens. The singular paren exists but is less natural.
- Put the date in parens and move on.
- He closed the parens in the wrong place and lost an hour.
- The language is nothing but parens once you look at it.
- Matching parens is what the editor is for.
- Three levels of parens is one level too many.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARENS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PARENS
The 6 tiles of PARENS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PARENS
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Common questions about PARENS
- Is PARENS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARENS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARENS worth?
- PARENS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARENS mean?
- Parentheses — round brackets, in the shorthand of editing and code.
- What letters can be added to PARENS?
- No single letter can be added to PARENS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PARENS:
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