AZURN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. AZURN 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AZURN?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AZURN is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AZURN
No single letter turns AZURN into another word.
How AZURN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AZURN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does AZURN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicpoetic
An old poetic word for azure, meaning a deep blue color.
Azurn is an archaic variant of azure that appeared in earlier English poetry, most famously in verse by Milton describing a deep, sky-like blue. Writers reached for the unusual ending to give a line a more elevated or old-fashioned musical quality than the plainer word azure would provide. The form dropped out of ordinary use once azure itself became the standard word, and azurn now survives only in quotations from older poetry and in dictionaries of archaic vocabulary.
How AZURN is used
Found almost exclusively in older poetry and quotations, never in ordinary modern writing.
- The poem speaks of an azurn sheen upon the distant hills.
- Milton's verse uses azurn where a modern poet would simply write azure.
- Scholars note azurn as a striking example of invented poetic diction.
- The anthology's footnote explains that azurn is an old form of azure.
- Readers unfamiliar with archaic English may stumble over azurn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AZURN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AZURN
Common questions about AZURN
- Is AZURN valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AZURN is not in it.
- How many points is AZURN worth?
- AZURN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AZURN mean?
- An old poetic word for azure, meaning a deep blue color.
- What letters can be added to AZURN?
- No single letter can be added to AZURN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AZURN:
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