LOR is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 3 points
Yes for Scrabble. LOR is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept LOR?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LOR is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LOR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in LOR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What does LOR mean in Scrabble?
interjection
dialectBritish
An exclamation of surprise or dismay.
Lor is a worn-down Lord, kept as an exclamation after the religious weight wore off — the same road that gave English crikey and cor. It belongs to the nineteenth-century novel and to stage speech, where writers used it to mark a character as working-class London.
How LOR is used
Stands alone or before a clause — lor, what a mess. Also written lor' with an apostrophe.
- Lor, look at the state of the kitchen.
- She said lor and sat down heavily.
- The novel gives every servant a lor and every master a good heavens.
- Lor, that was a near thing.
- He wrote lor in the dialogue and the editor left it alone.
- A quiet lor was all the comment the news got.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOR and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LOR
Showing 24 of 79 words that begin with LOR.
Words ending in LOR
Showing 24 of 47 words that end in LOR. Useful as a back hook: play LOR onto a word already on the board.
Words with LOR inside
Showing 24 of 898 words that contain LOR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LOR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LOR
Common questions about LOR
- Is LOR valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LOR is not in it.
- How many points is LOR worth?
- LOR is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOR mean?
- An exclamation of surprise or dismay.
- What letters can be added to LOR?
- LOR takes 5 hooks: 1 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of LOR:
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