BORS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. BORS 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BORS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BORS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BORS
No single letter turns BORS into another word.
How BORS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BORS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,212.
What stands out about BORS
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BORS mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectregionalBritish
A friendly term of address to more than one person, meaning something close to neighbours or mates.
Bors is the plural of an East Anglian dialect word used to address someone informally, similar to calling a group of local men mate or neighbour. It survives mainly in accounts of Norfolk speech.
How BORS is used
Regional British dialect; rarely used outside East Anglian speech.
- Evening, bors, he called to the men at the gate.
- The old fishermen still greeted each other as bors.
- She remembered her grandfather calling his friends bors.
- Come in, bors, and warm yourselves by the fire.
- The dialect word bors was common on the Norfolk coast.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BORS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BORS
The 4 tiles of BORS in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with BORS
14 longer words begin with BORS.
Words ending in BORS
9 words end in BORS. Useful as a back hook: play BORS onto a word already on the board.
Words with BORS inside
3 words contain BORS in the middle. Words that start with BORS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BORS
Common questions about BORS
- Is BORS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BORS is not in it.
- How many points is BORS worth?
- BORS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BORS mean?
- A friendly term of address to more than one person, meaning something close to neighbours or mates.
- What letters can be added to BORS?
- No single letter can be added to BORS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BORS:
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