BOURN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BOURN 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 BOURN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOURN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOURN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOURN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOURN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does BOURN mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A small stream, particularly one running through chalk downland in southern England that flows seasonally rather than year-round.
Many English place names built around the word bourn, such as Bournemouth and Sittingbourne, mark towns that grew up beside one of these seasonal streams. In older literary English, bourn also carried a second, quite different sense, meaning a boundary or destination, most famously in Shakespeare's phrase about the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Geographers still use bourn today to describe intermittent chalk streams that dry up in summer and flow again after heavy autumn rain. The two senses of bourn, stream and boundary, developed from different sources despite sharing one spelling.
How BOURN is used
The stream sense is mainly regional English usage; the boundary sense survives chiefly in literary quotation.
- The village grew up beside a small bourn that ran dry each summer.
- Hikers followed the bourn along the chalk hills until it disappeared underground.
- Sittingbourne takes its name from an old bourn that once flowed nearby.
- The poem borrowed the old image of a bourn no traveler crosses twice.
- After autumn rains, the bourn filled again and ran clear through the valley.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOURN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOURN
3 longer words begin with BOURN.
Words with BOURN inside
2 words contain BOURN in the middle. Words that start with BOURN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOURN
Common questions about BOURN
- Is BOURN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOURN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOURN worth?
- BOURN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOURN mean?
- A small stream, particularly one running through chalk downland in southern England that flows seasonally rather than year-round.
- What letters can be added to BOURN?
- BOURN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOURN:
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