The word penury is a valid scrabble word

2 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • penury n. Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
  • penury n. (Now chiefly poetic) A lack of something; a dearth.

11 valid words from 2 definitions

CHIEFLY DEARTH DESTITUTION EXTREME LACK NOW OF POETIC POVERTY SOMETHING WANT

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

EN NU NUR PE PEN UR

5 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

NE NEP RUN RUNE UN

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

PRUNEY

One anagram minus one (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-Y PRUNE

Scrabble scoring

  • 11 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 4554 chance (0.02%).
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 24637 chance.

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Categories without words

  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)
  • No anagrams can be formed with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word and an extra letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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