DURE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. DURE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DURE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DURE is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DURE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DURE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,404.
What stands out about DURE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 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 DURE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicobsolete
To last, continue, or endure over time.
Dure is an old form of endure with the prefix worn away, once meaning simply to go on existing. it appears in Middle and Early Modern English poetry and prose, and the sense survives today only inside the ordinary word endure.
How DURE is used
Obsolete and archaic; met only in older literature, never in current speech.
- The old poem asks how long such sorrow can dure.
- He wondered whether the peace would dure through winter.
- The chronicle says the siege did dure three months.
- Their friendship was said to dure beyond death.
- The ancient text claims the world shall ever dure.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DURE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DURE
The 4 tiles of DURE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with DURE
6 longer words begin with DURE.
Words ending in DURE
15 words end in DURE. Useful as a back hook: play DURE onto a word already on the board.
Words with DURE inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain DURE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DURE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DURE
Common questions about DURE
- Is DURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DURE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DURE worth?
- DURE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DURE mean?
- To last, continue, or endure over time.
- What letters can be added to DURE?
- DURE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DURE:
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