password P₃A₁S₁S₁W₄O₁R₁D₂

PASSWORD moves between an older, human meaning and a familiar computing one. It can be a word passed to someone for entry, a character string that opens an account or game level, or the verb meaning to protect something with such a code. That range explains why the word feels ordinary even though it has eight letters.

PASSWORD at a glance

• PASSWORD contains eight letters, including a doubled S and the high-value pair P and W.
• Its Scrabble face value is 14 points before any board-square premiums.
• PASSWORD is listed in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE.
• The letter set produces no anagrams and no one-letter neighbours.

What does PASSWORD mean?

As a noun, PASSWORD can mean a word relayed to gain admittance or a string of characters used to access information, a computer network, or a game level. The definition also records a verb: to password something is to protect it with a password.

That broad meaning fits the word’s modern use: a password need not be a dictionary word, despite the name. In Scrabble, though, PASSWORD is a tile sequence, and its 14-point total comes from P (3), W (4), D (2), and five one-point tiles. P and W together supply half its face value, so their placement matters most on a premium square.

What rhymes with PASSWORD?

PASSWORD has 12 listed rhymes, all sharing the final sound represented by “ord”: WORD, LORD, FORD, CORD, and SWORD are compact examples, while RECORD, AFFORD, ACCORD, and CONCORD extend the pattern. The list ranges from short everyday words to longer compounds such as LANDLORD, so it is more varied than a simple chain of one-syllable matches.

Anagrams and one-letter neighbours are both absent, so changing one tile or rearranging all eight does not produce a recorded companion here. That is a different kind of word-game result from the rhyme list: sound links are plentiful, but close spelling relatives are not. For a meaning clue, use the access sense; for a letter rack, move to the eight-letter lists.

The opening P and closing D also point to matching eight-letter word lists. PASSWORD’s 14 points are its plain tile total; premium squares change the play’s result, not the face value printed on the tiles.