FUR is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. FUR 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 FUR?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FUR is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FUR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FUR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in FUR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does FUR mean in Scrabble?
noun
The soft thick hair covering many animals.
Fur names the hair on the animal and the material taken from it, and the second has carried a political charge since the 1980s that the first does not. A third use — the coating on a tongue or inside a kettle — is unrelated to either of them.
How FUR is used
Uncountable and countable. Also a verb in fur up.
- The fur on a winter coat is twice as thick.
- A fur coat is an argument before it is a garment.
- The kettle had furred up and took twice as long.
- Fur on the animal and fur in the shop are different subjects.
- His tongue was furred and he could taste nothing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FUR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FUR
Showing 24 of 197 words that begin with FUR.
Words ending in FUR
4 words end in FUR. Useful as a back hook: play FUR onto a word already on the board.
Words with FUR inside
Showing 24 of 141 words that contain FUR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FUR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FUR
Common questions about FUR
- Is FUR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FUR, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FUR worth?
- FUR is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FUR mean?
- The soft thick hair covering many animals.
- What letters can be added to FUR?
- FUR takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of FUR:
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