PARVOLIN is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PARVOLIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARVOLIN?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARVOLIN is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARVOLIN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARVOLIN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PARVOLIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PARVOLIN has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about PARVOLIN
- All 8 letters of PARVOLIN are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PARVOLIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
An oily base formed when animal flesh such as fish or horse meat rots.
Parvolin is one of the ptomaines, substances studied by nineteenth-century chemists. It is rarely met outside old scientific works.
How PARVOLIN is used
Obscure chemical term from older science.
- The chemist isolated parvolin from spoiled fish.
- Old textbooks describe parvolin as an oily liquid.
- Parvolin was once listed among the ptomaines.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARVOLIN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PARVOLIN
3 longer words begin with PARVOLIN.
Shorter words from the letters in PARVOLIN
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Common questions about PARVOLIN
- Is PARVOLIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARVOLIN, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARVOLIN worth?
- PARVOLIN is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARVOLIN mean?
- An oily base formed when animal flesh such as fish or horse meat rots.
- What letters can be added to PARVOLIN?
- PARVOLIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PARVOLIN:
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