BURIER is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BURIER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BURIER?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BURIER is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BURIER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
buriersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BURIER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BURIER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 91,979.
What does BURIER mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
One who buries something, especially a person who buries the dead.
A burier is formed directly from the verb bury, in the same pattern as baker from bake or teacher from teach, but it never became a common job title the way those did. It survives mainly in older narrative writing, describing someone whose task is to bury bodies quickly, often during a plague, a siege, or some other disaster when the usual funeral arrangements break down. Because the role is grim and situational rather than a settled trade, burier reads today as a literary or historical word rather than an everyday one.
How BURIER is used
Rare; found mainly in older narrative writing about plague, war or disaster, where the dead had to be buried quickly.
- The burier moved from house to house during the outbreak, collecting the dead.
- No burier could keep pace with the number of victims that week.
- He described himself, half joking, as the village burier of old secrets.
- The novel's narrator is a burier of bones on a forgotten battlefield.
- A burier by trade, he had grown used to the smell of fresh earth.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BURIER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BURIER
The 6 tiles of BURIER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BURIER
1 longer words begin with BURIER.
Shorter words from the letters in BURIER
Common questions about BURIER
- Is BURIER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BURIER, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BURIER worth?
- BURIER is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BURIER mean?
- One who buries something, especially a person who buries the dead.
- What letters can be added to BURIER?
- BURIER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BURIER:
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