PARSEC is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PARSEC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARSEC?
| 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 PARSEC is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARSEC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
parsecsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARSEC scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PARSEC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What stands out about PARSEC
- The same 6 tiles also spell 8 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 PARSEC mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A unit of length used by astronomers, equal to about 3.26 light years.
The name joins parallax and second: a star one parsec away shifts by exactly one second of arc against the distant background as the Earth moves around its orbit. The parsec is the everyday yardstick of professional astronomy, where distances between stars and galaxies are quoted in parsecs, kiloparsecs and megaparsecs. Science fiction has sometimes misused the word as a unit of time, but it measures distance only.
How PARSEC is used
Used in astronomy and astrophysics; the larger units kiloparsec and megaparsec are built from it.
- The nearest star beyond the Sun lies a little over one parsec from us.
- Astronomers measured the cluster at several hundred parsec distance.
- One parsec is roughly thirty trillion kilometres.
- The catalogue lists each star with its distance in parsecs.
- A parsec is a far larger step than the distance from Earth to the Sun.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARSEC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PARSEC
The 6 tiles of PARSEC in a different order — 8 found.
Words starting with PARSEC
1 longer words begin with PARSEC.
Shorter words from the letters in PARSEC
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Common questions about PARSEC
- Is PARSEC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARSEC, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARSEC worth?
- PARSEC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARSEC mean?
- A unit of length used by astronomers, equal to about 3.26 light years.
- What letters can be added to PARSEC?
- PARSEC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PARSEC:
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