DOURA is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DOURA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOURA?
| 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 DOURA is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOURA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DOURA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOURA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does DOURA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
Grown across dry regions of Africa and Asia, doura is a variant spelling of durra, a hardy grain sorghum used for both food and fodder.
Doura is one of several English spellings, along with durra and dourah, used for a tall cereal grass whose grain feeds both people and livestock in dry regions. The plant tolerates drought far better than maize, which is why farmers across the Sahel, the Middle East and parts of Asia have long grown doura as a staple crop. Ground into flour it makes flatbreads and porridge, and its stalks provide fodder and building material once the grain has been harvested.
How DOURA is used
Rare in everyday English; appears mainly in older travel writing, agriculture and botany texts about African and Asian grain crops.
- Farmers along the Nile have grown doura for centuries.
- The market sold sacks of doura beside other grains.
- Doura tolerates drought better than many cereal crops.
- Travellers described fields of doura stretching to the horizon.
- Local bread was baked from ground doura flour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOURA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DOURA
The 5 tiles of DOURA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DOURA
3 longer words begin with DOURA.
Shorter words from the letters in DOURA
Common questions about DOURA
- Is DOURA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOURA, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOURA worth?
- DOURA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOURA mean?
- Grown across dry regions of Africa and Asia, doura is a variant spelling of durra, a hardy grain sorghum used for both food and fodder.
- What letters can be added to DOURA?
- DOURA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOURA:
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