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Is parity a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word parity is a Scrabble US word. The word parity is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

P3A1R1I1T1Y4

Is parity a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word parity is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

P3A1R1I1T1Y4

Is parity a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word parity is a Words With Friends word. The word parity is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

P4A1R1I1T1Y3

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6-letter words (1 found)

PARITY,

5-letter words (7 found)

ATRIP,PARTI,PARTY,PRATY,TAPIR,TRIPY,YRAPT,

4-letter words (21 found)

AIRT,AIRY,ARTI,ARTY,PAIR,PART,PATY,PITA,PITY,PRAT,PRAY,PYAT,RAIT,RAPT,RIPT,TARP,TIAR,TRAP,TRAY,TRIP,TRYP,

3-letter words (31 found)

AIR,AIT,APT,ART,ARY,ITA,PAR,PAT,PAY,PIA,PIR,PIT,PRY,PYA,RAI,RAP,RAT,RAY,RIA,RIP,RIT,RYA,TAI,TAP,TAR,TAY,TIP,TRY,YAP,YAR,YIP,

2-letter words (10 found)

AI,AR,AT,AY,IT,PA,PI,TA,TI,YA,

You can make 70 words from parity according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of parity

parity

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæɹɪti/
  • Rhymes: -æɹɪti
  • Homophone: parody (intervocalic flapping, weak vowel merger)
  • Hyphenation: par‧i‧ty

Etymology 1

From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritas, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- +‎ -ty.

Noun

parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)

  1. (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
    • 2000 April 26, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide, Pearson Education, unpaged:
      Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
  2. Senses related to classification into two sets.
    1. (mathematics, countable) A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.
      Parity is always preserved in such operations.
    2. (mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
      The particles' parities can switch at random.
    3. (computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
    4. (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
  3. (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
  4. Resemblance; analogy.
Antonyms
  • chirality
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Etymology 2

From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).

Noun

parity (plural parities)

  1. (medicine, countable) The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks
  2. (agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.
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