PENTS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. PENTS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PENTS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PENTS is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PENTS
No single letter turns PENTS into another word.
How PENTS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PENTS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does PENTS mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaichistorical
Lean-to sheds or covered structures attached to a building, in the plural of pent, an old short form of penthouse.
Pents once described small sloped-roof shelters built against the outer wall of a larger building, the same idea that later grew into the modern penthouse, though the two words drifted far apart in meaning over time. The word appears mostly in historical records of markets, stalls, and outbuildings.
How PENTS is used
Archaic; not used in modern English outside historical texts.
- Traders set up their pents along the market wall.
- The old survey lists three pents behind the manor house.
- Rain hammered on the wooden pents by the stable.
- Workers stored tools in the pents beside the barn.
- The town records mention repairs made to the market pents.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PENTS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PENTS
The 5 tiles of PENTS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PENTS
2 longer words begin with PENTS.
Words ending in PENTS
5 words end in PENTS. Useful as a back hook: play PENTS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in PENTS
Common questions about PENTS
- Is PENTS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PENTS is not in it.
- How many points is PENTS worth?
- PENTS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PENTS mean?
- Lean-to sheds or covered structures attached to a building, in the plural of pent, an old short form of penthouse.
- What letters can be added to PENTS?
- No single letter can be added to PENTS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PENTS:
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