PENCE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PENCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PENCE?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PENCE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PENCE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PENCE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PENCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 47,530.
What does PENCE mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
The plural form of penny used for sums of British money, as distinct from pennies, which refers to the individual coins themselves.
British speakers reach for pence when talking about an amount of money, saying fifty pence rather than fifty pennies, while pennies is reserved for counting the actual coins in a pocket or jar. The distinction runs through everyday shopping, where a price tag might read ninety-nine pence, and through banking, where pence has served as the smaller unit under the pound both before and after Britain's currency was decimalised in 1971. Older pence, from the pre-decimal system, were worth one twelfth of a shilling rather than one hundredth of a pound.
How PENCE is used
Pence is standard in British English for expressing amounts of money, most often after a number, as in twenty pence.
- The chocolate bar cost eighty pence at the corner shop.
- He found a handful of loose pence at the bottom of his bag.
- Prices rose by a few pence on almost every item.
- She paid the bus fare with exact pence rather than a note.
- The charity collected donations of pence and pounds alike.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PENCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PENCE
3 longer words begin with PENCE.
Words ending in PENCE
17 words end in PENCE. Useful as a back hook: play PENCE onto a word already on the board.
Words with PENCE inside
Showing 24 of 25 words that contain PENCE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PENCE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PENCE
Common questions about PENCE
- Is PENCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PENCE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PENCE worth?
- PENCE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PENCE mean?
- The plural form of penny used for sums of British money, as distinct from pennies, which refers to the individual coins themselves.
- What letters can be added to PENCE?
- PENCE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PENCE:
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