PARTON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PARTON 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 PARTON?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARTON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARTON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
partonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARTON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PARTON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about PARTON
- 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 PARTON mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Any of the point-like constituent particles, such as quarks and gluons, once proposed to explain how protons and neutrons scatter high-energy particles.
Physicists introduced the parton model in the 1960s to explain experiments in which electrons fired at protons bounced off as though hitting small, hard points rather than a smooth, evenly spread charge. Those hidden points, called partons, were later identified with the quarks and gluons that make up protons and neutrons, so parton survives today mainly as the older, more general name used before the internal structure was fully understood. The term still appears in physics papers describing how a proton's momentum is shared among its internal particles.
How PARTON is used
Specialized physics term, found in particle physics research rather than everyday or general scientific writing.
- The physicist modeled the proton as a cluster of parton particles.
- Each parton carries only a fraction of the proton's total momentum.
- The experiment measured how a parton scatters a high-energy electron.
- Early parton models could not yet distinguish quarks from gluons.
- The lecture explained how parton distributions are measured today.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARTON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PARTON
The 6 tiles of PARTON in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with PARTON
1 longer words begin with PARTON.
Shorter words from the letters in PARTON
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Common questions about PARTON
- Is PARTON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARTON, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARTON worth?
- PARTON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARTON mean?
- Any of the point-like constituent particles, such as quarks and gluons, once proposed to explain how protons and neutrons scatter high-energy particles.
- What letters can be added to PARTON?
- PARTON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PARTON:
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