ARUM is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ARUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARUM?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARUM is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARUM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARUM scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ARUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What stands out about ARUM
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A plant of a genus with arrow-shaped leaves and a hooded flower spike enclosed by a broad, leaf-like sheath.
An arum grows from a tuber and produces a distinctive flower structure in which a club-shaped spike, the spadix, sits inside a curved, petal-like hood called a spathe. The best-known European species is the cuckoo-pint, and related plants are grown worldwide for their striking flowers, including the arum lily.
How ARUM is used
Used in gardening and botanical writing, often in the compound arum lily.
- White arum lilies filled the vase on the altar.
- The gardener planted arum bulbs along the shaded border.
- An arum unfurled its pale spathe beneath the hedge.
- The children were warned not to eat the berries of the wild arum.
- Botanists studied how flies pollinate the arum by becoming briefly trapped inside it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARUM
The 4 tiles of ARUM in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ARUM
1 longer words begin with ARUM.
Words ending in ARUM
8 words end in ARUM. Useful as a back hook: play ARUM onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARUM inside
14 words contain ARUM in the middle. Words that start with ARUM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARUM
Common questions about ARUM
- Is ARUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARUM, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARUM worth?
- ARUM is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARUM mean?
- A plant of a genus with arrow-shaped leaves and a hooded flower spike enclosed by a broad, leaf-like sheath.
- What letters can be added to ARUM?
- ARUM takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ARUM:
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