Dictionary

Penitency

p ₃e ₁n ₁i ₁t ₁e ₁n ₁c ₃y ₄

About 4 syllables

9 letters · Rare

Scrabble US & Canada : not valid
Scrabble UK & worldwide : valid
Words With Friends : not valid
Wordle : not valid

What does penitency mean?

We don’t have a definition for penitency yet. It appears in the game word lists marked below, so it is playable even without a dictionary meaning. That is common for rare, regional and technical words.

Is PENITENCY a valid word?

Game / word list	Valid?
Scrabble US & Canada (NWL / TWL)	No
Scrabble UK & worldwide (Collins / SOWPODS)	Yes
Words With Friends (ENABLE)	No
Wordle (guess list)	No

How many points is PENITENCY worth?

Scrabble

16 pts

p ₃e ₁n ₁i ₁t ₁e ₁n ₁c ₃y ₄

Words With Friends

19 pts

p ₄e ₁n ₂i ₁t ₁e ₁n ₂c ₄y ₃

Wordfeud

18 pts

p ₄e ₁n ₁i ₁t ₁e ₁n ₁c ₄y ₄

NYT Crossplay

16 pts

p ₃e ₁n ₁i ₁t ₁e ₁n ₁c ₃y ₄

Scores are the sum of the tile values, before premium squares or bingo bonuses.

Words from the letters in PENITENCY

Best shorter words top 30 of 133

See all 133 words made from PENITENCY

Words that end like PENITENCY

Common words that share the ending -ENCY, handy for rhymes, poems and wordplay. Matches are based on spelling, so a few may not rhyme exactly.

emergency consistency indecency dependency insolvency presidency complacency concurrency contingency transparency tendency agency currency urgency inconsistency clemency cogency decency potency

All words ending in -ENCY

Penitency: quick answers

Is PENITENCY a valid Scrabble word?

Only in Collins. PENITENCY is valid in Scrabble outside North America (Collins/SOWPODS) but not in the North American NWL list.

How many points is PENITENCY worth?

PENITENCY scores 16 points in Scrabble, 19 in Words With Friends, 18 in Wordfeud and 16 in NYT Crossplay. These are plain tile totals, before any double- or triple-letter and word squares.

What words can you make with the letters in PENITENCY?

You can make 133 shorter words from PENITENCY, such as PYCNITE, ECTYPE, ETYPIC, TYPIC. See the full list.