CUR is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. CUR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CUR?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUR is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 10 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in CUR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What stands out about CUR
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 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 CUR mean in Scrabble?
noun
A mongrel dog, especially a bad-tempered one; a contemptible person.
Cur has been an insult for seven hundred years, and the two senses hold each other up: the dog is worthless because it is nobody's, and the man is a cur because he behaves like it. Nobody uses it neutrally, which is why it survives in fiction and almost nowhere in speech.
How CUR is used
Countable: a cur, a pack of curs. Applied to a person it is always an insult, and a dated one.
- A yellow cur followed the cart for two miles.
- He called the man a cur and regretted it before the echo died.
- Curs fought over the scraps behind the inn.
- The dog was a cur of no particular breed and great intelligence.
- In the novel every villain is a cur and every hero a hound.
- She drove the cur off the step with a broom.
- Whoever wrote that letter is a cur, and knows it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUR and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CUR
The 3 tiles of CUR in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CUR
Showing 24 of 392 words that begin with CUR.
Words ending in CUR
8 words end in CUR. Useful as a back hook: play CUR onto a word already on the board.
Words with CUR inside
Showing 24 of 573 words that contain CUR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CUR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CUR
Common questions about CUR
- Is CUR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUR, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUR worth?
- CUR is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUR mean?
- A mongrel dog, especially a bad-tempered one; a contemptible person.
- What letters can be added to CUR?
- CUR takes 10 hooks: 1 in front and 9 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of CUR:
Open CUR in the Word Finder