DURRA is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DURRA 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 DURRA?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DURRA is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DURRA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
durrasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DURRA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DURRA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What does DURRA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A drought-tolerant grain sorghum widely grown across parts of Africa and Asia, closely related to the sorghum grown elsewhere for food and fodder.
Durra belongs to the same sorghum species grown across the world for grain and animal feed, but farmers select this variety specifically because it survives long dry spells better than most cereals. Fields of durra have fed communities across North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of South Asia for thousands of years, long before modern irrigation reached these regions. Millers grind the grain into flour for flatbread, while the tough stalks left behind often become animal fodder or fuel once the harvest is done. Because so many regional names exist for the same plant, older reference books sometimes list durra under a handful of different spellings.
How DURRA is used
A regional and agricultural term for a sorghum variety, used mainly in writing about farming in dry climates.
- Farmers in the dry region planted durra because it needed so little water.
- The market sold sacks of ground durra flour beside the wheat and barley.
- Livestock were fed on durra stalks once the grain had been harvested.
- Travelers described villages that depended almost entirely on durra bread.
- Agronomists studied why durra tolerates drought better than most grains.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DURRA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DURRA
1 longer words begin with DURRA.
Shorter words from the letters in DURRA
Common questions about DURRA
- Is DURRA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DURRA, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DURRA worth?
- DURRA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DURRA mean?
- A drought-tolerant grain sorghum widely grown across parts of Africa and Asia, closely related to the sorghum grown elsewhere for food and fodder.
- What letters can be added to DURRA?
- DURRA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DURRA:
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