PIAN is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. PIAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PIAN?
| 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 PIAN is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PIAN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PIAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,034.
What stands out about PIAN
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PIAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A contagious tropical skin disease, known too as yaws, that causes raised sores mainly on the legs and feet.
Pian is an older name for yaws, an infection caused by bacteria related to those that cause syphilis, though it spreads through skin contact rather than sexual contact and is not the same disease. It is most common in warm, humid regions with poor sanitation, where it produces crusted, raspberry-like sores that can eventually damage bone if untreated. Public health writing today generally prefers the name yaws, so pian now appears mainly in older or specialised medical texts.
How PIAN is used
An older medical name for yaws; modern texts generally use yaws instead.
- Colonial-era reports described villages struggling with outbreaks of pian.
- The disease pian left raised sores on the child's shins.
- Doctors in the region once treated pian with the same drugs used for syphilis.
- The old medical manual listed pian among the tropical skin diseases.
- Pian was gradually brought under control through mass treatment campaigns.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PIAN
The 4 tiles of PIAN in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with PIAN
Showing 24 of 28 words that begin with PIAN.
Words ending in PIAN
19 words end in PIAN. Useful as a back hook: play PIAN onto a word already on the board.
Words with PIAN inside
Showing 24 of 27 words that contain PIAN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PIAN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PIAN
Common questions about PIAN
- Is PIAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIAN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIAN worth?
- PIAN is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIAN mean?
- A contagious tropical skin disease, known too as yaws, that causes raised sores mainly on the legs and feet.
- What letters can be added to PIAN?
- PIAN takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PIAN:
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