AURIS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. AURIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AURIS?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AURIS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AURIS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How AURIS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AURIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does AURIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
The Latin word for the ear, used in English chiefly as a medical and pharmacological term.
Auris is the Latin anatomical name for the ear, kept alive in English mainly through medical Latin rather than ordinary speech. Prescriptions and clinical notes shorten it into familiar abbreviations such as AD, AS and AU, meaning right ear, left ear and both ears. Outside medicine the word appears occasionally in older or technical writing that favours Latin anatomical terms over their everyday English equivalents. Its plural, aures, follows the same Latin pattern and simply means the two ears together.
How AURIS is used
Chiefly a medical and pharmacological term, seen in prescriptions and clinical writing rather than in everyday conversation.
- The prescription used the abbreviation for auris to specify which ear needed drops.
- The old textbook labelled the diagram with the Latin word auris.
- Pharmacists recognise auris utraque as an instruction meaning both ears.
- The lecture traced how auris entered English through medical Latin.
- A note beside the drawing read auris externa, the outer ear.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AURIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AURIS
5 longer words begin with AURIS.
Words ending in AURIS
3 words end in AURIS. Useful as a back hook: play AURIS onto a word already on the board.
Words with AURIS inside
4 words contain AURIS in the middle. Words that start with AURIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AURIS
Common questions about AURIS
- Is AURIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AURIS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AURIS worth?
- AURIS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AURIS mean?
- The Latin word for the ear, used in English chiefly as a medical and pharmacological term.
- What letters can be added to AURIS?
- AURIS takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AURIS:
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