PARTAN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PARTAN 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 PARTAN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARTAN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARTAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARTAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PARTAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What stands out about PARTAN
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 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 PARTAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
A crab, especially the common edible crab found around British and Scottish coasts.
Fishermen and cooks along the Scottish coast use partan for the crab itself and for dishes made from it, such as partan bree, a traditional crab soup. The word comes from Scottish Gaelic rather than being a respelling of the ordinary English word crab, so it survives as its own distinct term in Scots and regional British speech rather than as a simple local pronunciation. Outside Scotland and northern England the word is rarely understood without explanation.
How PARTAN is used
Regional Scots and northern British term for a crab, found in dialect writing and traditional recipe names such as partan bree.
- They boiled a fresh partan for Sunday dinner.
- The fishmonger sold partan straight off the boat.
- Partan bree was served as the first course at the feast.
- A large partan scuttled sideways across the rock pool.
- Her grandmother's recipe called for two whole partan.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARTAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PARTAN
The 6 tiles of PARTAN in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with PARTAN
1 longer words begin with PARTAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PARTAN
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Common questions about PARTAN
- Is PARTAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARTAN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARTAN worth?
- PARTAN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARTAN mean?
- A crab, especially the common edible crab found around British and Scottish coasts.
- What letters can be added to PARTAN?
- PARTAN takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PARTAN:
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