AUROUS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. AUROUS 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 AUROUS?
| 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: 23 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AUROUS is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AUROUS
No single letter turns AUROUS into another word.
How AUROUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AUROUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does AUROUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Of, relating to, or containing gold in its lower, univalent chemical state.
Aurous belongs to the vocabulary chemists use to separate two valence states of gold, matching the same pattern as ferrous and ferric for iron. An aurous compound contains univalent gold, written chemically as gold(I), while the related word auric marks compounds with trivalent gold, or gold(III). Textbooks on inorganic chemistry use aurous chloride and aurous oxide as standard examples when teaching how a single metal can form compounds with different valences. Outside chemistry classrooms and reference works, aurous almost never appears in ordinary writing.
How AUROUS is used
Technical chemistry term; paired with auric to distinguish gold's two common oxidation states.
- Aurous chloride contains gold in its lower valence state.
- The textbook contrasts aurous compounds with auric ones.
- An aurous salt reacted differently from its auric counterpart.
- Students learn aurous oxide as an example of gold chemistry.
- Few outside a chemistry lab ever use the word aurous.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AUROUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AUROUS
Common questions about AUROUS
- Is AUROUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AUROUS, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AUROUS worth?
- AUROUS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AUROUS mean?
- Of, relating to, or containing gold in its lower, univalent chemical state.
- What letters can be added to AUROUS?
- No single letter can be added to AUROUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AUROUS:
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