Unscramble PARENS and you have 130 words, PARENS itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. PARENS has 1 anagram here, ARPENS, scoring 8 like PARENS itself. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for nerspa, resnap, respan, napers, preans, sarpne, spaner, napser, pensar or pensra? They use the same letters as PARENS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PARENS by length: 2 with 6 letters, 30 with 5, 46 with 4, 39 with 3 and 13 with 2.
24 of 30 5-letter words made with PARENS letters tie at 7 points; none scores more. SPARE, ASPEN and PARSE will look familiar.
Of the 46 4-letter words from PARENS, 26 score 6 points, the group's best. NEAR, EARN and SPAN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PARENS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with PA · ending in NS · all 6-letter words
The meaning of PARENS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PARENS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARENS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 130) | 109 | 130 | 104 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
21 of the 130 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PERNS, SPAER, SPANE, NEPS, PERN, NEP, PRE, REANS, EANS, REAN, RENS, SEAN and 9 more. 5 of the 130 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PARENS, PAREN, NAES, NARE and SAN.
With one more tile, the letters of PARENS spell the words below.