AUA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. AUA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AUA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AUA is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AUA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AUA scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AUA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What stands out about AUA
- AUA is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
- Every letter in AUA is a vowel, which makes it a way out of a rack with nothing but vowels on it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AUA mean in Scrabble?
noun
New Zealandzoology
A yellow-eyed mullet, a food fish found in the coastal waters of New Zealand.
Aua is the Maori and New Zealand English name for a species of grey mullet with a distinctive yellow eye, common in estuaries and along the coast. It has long been caught both for sport and for food.
How AUA is used
Used in New Zealand English and fishing contexts; unfamiliar outside that region.
- The old man came back from the wharf with a bucket of aua for dinner.
- Aua gather in shallow estuaries where the water is warm and calm.
- She learned to fillet an aua before she was ten.
- The fishmonger sold aua fresh off the boat that morning.
- Local fishermen say aua bite best just after the tide turns.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AUA
1 longer words begin with AUA.
Words ending in AUA
1 words end in AUA. Useful as a back hook: play AUA onto a word already on the board.
Words with AUA inside
3 words contain AUA in the middle. Words that start with AUA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AUA
Common questions about AUA
- Is AUA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AUA is not in it.
- How many points is AUA worth?
- AUA is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUA mean?
- A yellow-eyed mullet, a food fish found in the coastal waters of New Zealand.
- What letters can be added to AUA?
- AUA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AUA:
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