LOURY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LOURY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LOURY?
| 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 LOURY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOURY
Front hooks — 1
flouryBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LOURY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOURY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does LOURY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryrare
Dark, gloomy and threatening rain; used mainly of the sky or the weather.
Writers use loury to paint a sky heavy with cloud and pressing low, the kind of weather that makes people expect rain before a single drop has fallen. The word is a variant spelling of lowery, itself built on the old verb lower, meaning to look sullen or, of the sky, to darken threateningly, a sense unrelated to the common word lower meaning to bring something down. Because both the word and the sense it describes are uncommon outside older or descriptive writing, modern speakers are far more likely to say the sky looks overcast or threatening.
How LOURY is used
A rare, mainly literary word for threatening, overcast weather, seldom heard in ordinary conversation.
- A loury sky hung over the harbour all morning.
- The loury weather kept the fishing boats in port.
- Clouds gathered in a loury mass above the hills.
- Under such a loury sky, the picnic was cancelled.
- The loury afternoon finally broke into a heavy shower.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOURY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in LOURY
2 words end in LOURY. Useful as a back hook: play LOURY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in LOURY
Common questions about LOURY
- Is LOURY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LOURY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LOURY worth?
- LOURY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOURY mean?
- Dark, gloomy and threatening rain; used mainly of the sky or the weather.
- What letters can be added to LOURY?
- LOURY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOURY:
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