PAROUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PAROUS 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 PAROUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAROUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAROUS
No single letter turns PAROUS into another word.
How PAROUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PAROUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What stands out about PAROUS
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PAROUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicaltechnical
Having given birth to one or more children; having borne offspring.
Doctors and medical researchers use parous to sort patients by childbirth history, often contrasting a parous woman with a nulliparous one who has never given birth, since the distinction affects certain health risks and treatment decisions. The word rarely appears outside clinical notes, medical studies, and reference works on reproduction. It comes from the same Latin root as parent and postpartum, all connected to the idea of bearing young.
How PAROUS is used
Clinical and technical term, used mainly in medical records and research rather than everyday speech.
- The study compared parous and nulliparous women over forty.
- Her chart listed her as parous following the birth of her son.
- Doctors noted that parous patients showed a different risk pattern.
- The researcher separated parous mice from those that had never bred.
- A parous woman's history was recorded before the surgery began.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAROUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PAROUS
The 6 tiles of PAROUS in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with PAROUS
2 longer words begin with PAROUS.
Shorter words from the letters in PAROUS
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Common questions about PAROUS
- Is PAROUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAROUS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAROUS worth?
- PAROUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAROUS mean?
- Having given birth to one or more children; having borne offspring.
- What letters can be added to PAROUS?
- No single letter can be added to PAROUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PAROUS:
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