PARERGON is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PARERGON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARERGON?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARERGON is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARERGON
No single letter turns PARERGON into another word.
How PARERGON scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PARERGON, 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 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PARERGON has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PARERGON mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
A piece of work that is secondary to, or done alongside, an artist or scholar's main body of work.
A parergon is the side project: the essay a novelist writes between books, or the minor study beside a great research programme. The plural, parerga, is the form most often seen in titles.
How PARERGON is used
A learned word used in literary and art criticism.
- The little treatise was a parergon beside his major history.
- She treated her translations as a parergon to her poetry.
- Critics have dismissed the pamphlet as mere parergon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARERGON and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PARERGON
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Common questions about PARERGON
- Is PARERGON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARERGON, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARERGON worth?
- PARERGON is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARERGON mean?
- A piece of work that is secondary to, or done alongside, an artist or scholar's main body of work.
- What letters can be added to PARERGON?
- No single letter can be added to PARERGON to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PARERGON:
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