HURST is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HURST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HURST?
| 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 HURST is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HURST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hurstsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HURST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HURST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about HURST
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 HURST mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
A small wood, thicket or wooded hillock, especially one rising from sandy or low-lying ground.
Hurst comes from Old English hyrst and once named any patch of woodland or a wooded rise in the landscape, though it rarely appears in ordinary speech today. The word survives chiefly as an element in English place names such as Amherst, Sandhurst and Hurstpierpoint, each originally describing a wood or a wooded hill at that spot. Because it belongs to an older layer of the language, hurst now turns up mainly in place-name studies and historical writing rather than in everyday description of a landscape.
How HURST is used
Rare outside place names and historical or dialect writing; not used in ordinary modern speech.
- The map marks a small hurst just beyond the old mill.
- Local historians traced the name of the village back to a hurst that once stood there.
- The path climbed through a narrow hurst before reaching open fields.
- Many English towns take their names from a hurst that has long since vanished.
- The old survey described the hurst as thick with oak and holly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HURST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HURST
The 5 tiles of HURST in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with HURST
1 longer words begin with HURST.
Shorter words from the letters in HURST
Common questions about HURST
- Is HURST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HURST, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HURST worth?
- HURST is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HURST mean?
- A small wood, thicket or wooded hillock, especially one rising from sandy or low-lying ground.
- What letters can be added to HURST?
- HURST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HURST:
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