PARIAN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PARIAN 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 PARIAN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARIAN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARIAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pariansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARIAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PARIAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What does PARIAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
historical
Describing a hard, white, unglazed porcelain, or the fine white marble it was designed to imitate, both originally associated with the Greek island of Paros.
Sculptors prized the marble quarried on Paros for its smooth, faintly translucent whiteness, and centuries later English potters borrowed the same word, parian, for an unglazed porcelain developed to imitate that marble's look in small statues and ornaments. A parian figurine has no glossy glaze at all, relying instead on its fine, matte white surface to resemble carved stone. Antique dealers and collectors still use parian mainly to describe nineteenth-century porcelain busts, figures, and decorative ware rather than the marble itself.
How PARIAN is used
Mainly found in descriptions of antique porcelain figures and ornaments, and occasionally in references to fine white marble.
- The collector displayed a parian bust of the poet on the mantelpiece.
- A parian figurine of a shepherdess stood in the glass cabinet.
- The catalog described the vase as parian porcelain from the 1860s.
- Sunlight caught the smooth parian surface of the small statue.
- She mistook the parian ornament for real marble at first glance.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARIAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PARIAN
The 6 tiles of PARIAN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PARIAN
1 longer words begin with PARIAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PARIAN
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Common questions about PARIAN
- Is PARIAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARIAN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARIAN worth?
- PARIAN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARIAN mean?
- Describing a hard, white, unglazed porcelain, or the fine white marble it was designed to imitate, both originally associated with the Greek island of Paros.
- What letters can be added to PARIAN?
- PARIAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PARIAN:
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