PAVAN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PAVAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PAVAN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAVAN is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAVAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAVAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PAVAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does PAVAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
musichistorical
A slow, stately dance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, performed in couples with formal gliding steps, or the music written for it.
Dancers performed the pavan at court in a solemn procession of paired couples, moving with measured steps that suited its dignified, ceremonial mood far more than the livelier dances that often followed it in a set. Composers of the period regularly paired a pavan with a faster galliard, giving audiences a contrast between the slow opening dance and the brisk one that came after. The word most likely came into English through French and Italian from an earlier source, and today the pavan survives mainly as a piece of instrumental music rather than as a dance anyone still performs socially.
How PAVAN is used
Used mainly in writing about early music and dance history, rarely outside that specialist context.
- The court musicians opened the evening with a slow pavan.
- Dancers moved through the pavan in stately, measured steps.
- The composer paired his pavan with a lively galliard.
- Historians study surviving scores of the pavan to understand Renaissance court life.
- A modern ensemble recorded the pavan on period instruments.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAVAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PAVAN
3 longer words begin with PAVAN.
Shorter words from the letters in PAVAN
Common questions about PAVAN
- Is PAVAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAVAN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAVAN worth?
- PAVAN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAVAN mean?
- A slow, stately dance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, performed in couples with formal gliding steps, or the music written for it.
- What letters can be added to PAVAN?
- PAVAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PAVAN:
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