parent: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 8 letter points · starts with P · ends with T
Meaning of parent
noun
- in-plural, often
A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
Example: After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
- in-plural, often
A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
A surrogate parent.
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
Listed forms: parents.
Source: Wiktionary — parent.
verb
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
Listed forms: parents, parenting, parented.
Source: Wiktionary — parent.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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verb
look after a child until it is an adult
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is parent in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of parent
P(3) + A(1) + R(1) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of parent
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from parent
83 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in parent. Showing up to 24, longest first.