CURSOR is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CURSOR 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 CURSOR?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CURSOR is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CURSOR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CURSOR scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CURSOR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 310,430.
What does CURSOR mean in Scrabble?
noun
A movable marker on a computer screen that shows where the next input or action will take effect.
Modern cursors usually appear as a blinking vertical line in text or as an arrow-shaped pointer controlled by a mouse or trackpad, and they tell the user exactly where typing, clicking or a command will land next. The word originally named a sliding part on old measuring instruments such as a slide rule, where a marked window moved along a scale to line up numbers. Computing borrowed that older sense of a part that slides to a working position and applied it to the on-screen marker we now take for granted.
How CURSOR is used
An everyday term in computing, used constantly when describing text editing, navigation, or pointer movement on screen.
- She moved the cursor to the end of the sentence before typing.
- The blinking cursor showed exactly where the next letter would appear.
- He dragged the cursor across the paragraph to select it.
- The cursor froze for a moment while the program loaded.
- An old slide rule uses a sliding cursor to line up its scales.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CURSOR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CURSOR
The 6 tiles of CURSOR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CURSOR
8 longer words begin with CURSOR.
Shorter words from the letters in CURSOR
Common questions about CURSOR
- Is CURSOR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CURSOR, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CURSOR worth?
- CURSOR is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CURSOR mean?
- A movable marker on a computer screen that shows where the next input or action will take effect.
- What letters can be added to CURSOR?
- CURSOR takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CURSOR:
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