INURN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. INURN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept INURN?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful INURN is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for INURN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
inurnsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How INURN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in INURN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,237.
What does INURN mean in Scrabble?
verb
rareliterary
To place the ashes of a cremated body in an urn; by extension, to bury.
To inurn someone is to place their cremated remains formally into an urn, an act often carried out with the same ceremony given to a burial. The word extends occasionally beyond its literal sense to mean simply to entomb, echoing the older, broader idea of enclosing a body after death. Because cremation and inurnment are now common practices, the word still appears in funeral programmes and obituaries, though the plainer word bury describes most burials today. Inurn shares its root with urn and with inter, both pointing to the final placing of remains.
How INURN is used
Formal and rather rare, found mainly in funeral notices and literary writing about death and remembrance.
- The family chose to inurn their mother's ashes beside her husband's.
- A small ceremony marked the day they would inurn the ashes.
- The poem asks the earth to inurn the poet's restless heart.
- Cemetery staff helped arrange where to inurn the cremated remains.
- They decided to inurn rather than scatter the ashes at sea.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of INURN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of INURN
The 5 tiles of INURN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with INURN
5 longer words begin with INURN.
Shorter words from the letters in INURN
Common questions about INURN
- Is INURN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts INURN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is INURN worth?
- INURN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does INURN mean?
- To place the ashes of a cremated body in an urn; by extension, to bury.
- What letters can be added to INURN?
- INURN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of INURN:
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