IRRUPT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. IRRUPT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept IRRUPT?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IRRUPT is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IRRUPT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
irruptsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How IRRUPT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in IRRUPT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 183,959.
What does IRRUPT mean in Scrabble?
verb
technicalrare
To enter forcibly, suddenly, or in an uncontrolled way, often used of a large group entering a place at once.
Irrupt looks like a simple opposite of erupt, but the two describe motion in different directions: something erupts outward, while a crowd, an army, or a species can irrupt inward, breaking into a place rather than bursting out of one. Ecologists borrowed the word for animal populations, so a hard winter up north can make snowy owls irrupt far south of their usual range in unusually large numbers. Because the sense of forcing an entrance is easy to confuse with related verbs, irrupt tends to appear in careful scientific or literary writing rather than everyday speech.
How IRRUPT is used
Formal and somewhat rare; met mainly in ecology, where it describes sudden, large-scale movement of animals into new territory, and occasionally in writing about crowds or forces breaking into a place.
- Large flocks of snowy owls sometimes irrupt into regions far south of their usual range.
- The soldiers waited for the signal before they would irrupt through the gate.
- A shortage of food up north can cause a species to irrupt into unfamiliar habitats.
- Reporters described how the crowd would irrupt past the barriers the moment the doors opened.
- Biologists study why some rodent populations irrupt every few years and then collapse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IRRUPT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with IRRUPT
7 longer words begin with IRRUPT.
Shorter words from the letters in IRRUPT
Common questions about IRRUPT
- Is IRRUPT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts IRRUPT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is IRRUPT worth?
- IRRUPT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IRRUPT mean?
- To enter forcibly, suddenly, or in an uncontrolled way, often used of a large group entering a place at once.
- What letters can be added to IRRUPT?
- IRRUPT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of IRRUPT:
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