Per is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PER in dictionary:

PREPOSITION:
• for each
• for each (used with units to express a rate)
• by means of
• divided by a line in the direction of
• Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.

How to use PER in a sentence

• Every dollar will yield at least the eight per cent.
• But six per cent seemed too petty a profit for him.
• But five per cent, of the potential power residing in the coal actually mined is saved and used.
• Good farms within about three or four miles of Cincinnati, one-third cleared, are sold at from thirty to fifty dollars per acre.
• The number in domestic service is nearly twice as great, something like 40 per cent of the 7,000,000.
• Rama, who had not held public lectures since early 1988, required most students to bring at least three new potential initiates per year.
• So joyously we were rushed north at about five miles an hour, or eight kilometres per hour, which sounds better.
• Descriptive circular, with price list, sent per mail on application.
• The animals do not take out more than from five to ten per cent of the more valuable elements of plant-food from the clover.
• In growing garden and vegetable seeds, much labor is necessarily employed per acre, and consequently it is of great importance to produce a good yield.
• We propose to add nearly, or quite, fifty per cent to this amount, at the very moment that we appeal to the languishing state of this interest as a proof of national distress.
• The purchasing power of a 3 per cent annual interest on notes and bonds has been offset by the decrease in the purchasing power of the principal of the debt.
• It will not produce as many pounds per acre as the lighter gourd seed.
• The crop in Mysore rarely yields two bushels per acre, but about Poonah the produce is much larger.
• If we suppose his money worth ten per cent interest, per annum, the amount of the interest on the purchase money, is one hundred dollars per annum.
• It stands only at the low interest of eight per cent.
• The annual death rate from all causes of the general population, between the ages of 15 and 45, is about 7 per 1000.
• In the best specimens of butter there is a slight amount of caseine, not over five per cent at most, though in poor there is much more.
• Brown sugar, during ten years, from 1792 to 1802, with a duty of one and a half cents per pound, averaged fourteen cents per pound.