GUR is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. GUR is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept GUR?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUR is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GUR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in GUR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does GUR mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
Unrefined cane sugar, sold in solid lumps across South Asia.
Gur is boiled cane juice left to set hard with the molasses still in it, so it tastes of the field rather than of sweetness alone. It comes in blocks the colour of dark honey, broken up with a hammer, and goes into sweets, into medicine and into cattle feed; under the name jaggery it is what most English recipes ask for.
How GUR is used
Uncountable: a block of gur, a spoonful of gur. Spelled gud in some regions.
- A lump of gur costs less than a bar of chocolate.
- She stirs gur into the tea instead of sugar.
- The gur came wrapped in newspaper and broke into three pieces.
- Gur tastes of the field it came from.
- Sweets made with gur keep for weeks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GUR
The 3 tiles of GUR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GUR
Showing 24 of 62 words that begin with GUR.
Words ending in GUR
6 words end in GUR. Useful as a back hook: play GUR onto a word already on the board.
Words with GUR inside
Showing 24 of 177 words that contain GUR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GUR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GUR
Common questions about GUR
- Is GUR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUR, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUR worth?
- GUR is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUR mean?
- Unrefined cane sugar, sold in solid lumps across South Asia.
- What letters can be added to GUR?
- GUR takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of GUR:
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