BOURG is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BOURG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOURG?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOURG is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOURG
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bourgsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOURG scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOURG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does BOURG mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small French market town, especially one that grew up around a castle or church.
Bourg keeps its French shape in English rather than being translated, because it names a settlement smaller than a city and larger than a village and does so more precisely than the plain word town does. It survives mostly in travel writing, history and place names such as Bourg-en-Bresse. The related English word borough comes from the very same root, though the two now look and sound quite different.
How BOURG is used
Chiefly in writing about France or French history; rare outside that context.
- The road climbed through a small bourg before dropping into the valley.
- Every bourg in the region held its market on a Tuesday.
- The castle and its bourg grew up together over four centuries.
- He described the bourg in such detail that the reader could draw a map of it.
- A bourg of that size would have had its own church and little else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOURG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOURG
19 longer words begin with BOURG.
Words ending in BOURG
1 words end in BOURG. Useful as a back hook: play BOURG onto a word already on the board.
Words with BOURG inside
8 words contain BOURG in the middle. Words that start with BOURG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOURG
Common questions about BOURG
- Is BOURG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOURG, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOURG worth?
- BOURG is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOURG mean?
- A small French market town, especially one that grew up around a castle or church.
- What letters can be added to BOURG?
- BOURG takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOURG:
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