AURUM is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. AURUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AURUM?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AURUM is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AURUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
aurumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AURUM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AURUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does AURUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistryliterary
The Latin name for the metal gold, the source of its chemical symbol Au, occasionally used in English as a literary or technical word for gold itself.
Alchemists and early chemists wrote of aurum long before modern chemical symbols existed, and the two letters Au on the periodic table are a direct survival of that Latin name. Outside chemistry, aurum appears occasionally in poetry or heraldic writing as an elevated way of naming gold, in the same way that some other metals keep Latin names in specialised contexts. The everyday English word remains simply gold, so aurum is mostly encountered by readers of older scientific or literary texts.
How AURUM is used
A Latin-derived technical and literary word for gold, rarely used in ordinary modern speech.
- The symbol Au on the periodic table comes from the Latin aurum.
- Medieval alchemists searched endlessly for a way to produce aurum.
- The poem used aurum instead of gold for a more elevated tone.
- Early chemistry texts still referred to gold by its Latin name, aurum.
- The herald's blazon named the field aurum rather than gold.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AURUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AURUM
1 longer words begin with AURUM.
Shorter words from the letters in AURUM
Common questions about AURUM
- Is AURUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AURUM, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AURUM worth?
- AURUM is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AURUM mean?
- The Latin name for the metal gold, the source of its chemical symbol Au, occasionally used in English as a literary or technical word for gold itself.
- What letters can be added to AURUM?
- AURUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AURUM:
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