PASTNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PASTNESS 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 PASTNESS?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PASTNESS is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PASTNESS
No single letter turns PASTNESS into another word.
How PASTNESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in PASTNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 3 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PASTNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PASTNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
The quality or state of belonging to a time already gone.
Pastness is a favourite of historians and philosophers who ask what makes an event feel over. It is abstract and seldom heard in ordinary talk.
How PASTNESS is used
Used in academic and reflective writing.
- The pastness of the old photographs made them feel distant.
- Historians debate the pastness of events within living memory.
- A sense of pastness hung over the empty house.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PASTNESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PASTNESS
1 longer words begin with PASTNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in PASTNESS
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Common questions about PASTNESS
- Is PASTNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PASTNESS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PASTNESS worth?
- PASTNESS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PASTNESS mean?
- The quality or state of belonging to a time already gone.
- What letters can be added to PASTNESS?
- No single letter can be added to PASTNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of PASTNESS:
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