JURE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. JURE 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 11 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept JURE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JURE is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JURE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JURE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in JURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,615.
What does JURE mean in Scrabble?
adverb
legal
(Latin, chiefly in legal use) By right or according to law.
Jure turns up in legal Latin phrases where a writer wants to stress that something is true by strict law, as opposed to merely in practice. English legal writing keeps a handful of these Latin adverbs, and jure is one of the shorter, more portable ones.
How JURE is used
Used in legal and academic writing rather than everyday speech.
- The judge ruled that the claimant held the title jure and not merely by custom.
- The essay contrasts a ruler's power jure with power held only in practice.
- Lawyers cited the old maxim to show the estate passed jure to the heir.
- The court paper used jure to stress the strictly legal basis of the claim.
- Historians debate whether the monarch reigned jure or only by conquest.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JURE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JURE
3 longer words begin with JURE.
Words ending in JURE
7 words end in JURE. Useful as a back hook: play JURE onto a word already on the board.
Words with JURE inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain JURE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with JURE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JURE
Common questions about JURE
- Is JURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JURE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JURE worth?
- JURE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JURE mean?
- (Latin, chiefly in legal use) By right or according to law.
- What letters can be added to JURE?
- JURE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of JURE:
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