MHORR is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. MHORR 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MHORR?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MHORR is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MHORR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
mhorrsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MHORR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MHORR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 156,849.
What does MHORR mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A large, pale gazelle native to North Africa, now among the rarest of desert antelopes.
Mhorr names a subspecies of dama gazelle once common across the western Sahara, distinguished by its pale coat, chestnut neck patch, and long lyre-shaped horns. Habitat loss and hunting pushed the wild mhorr close to extinction by the late twentieth century, and today most surviving animals live in captive breeding programmes rather than in the desert their ancestors roamed. The word reached English through French colonial writing about North African wildlife and is also spelled mohr in some older sources.
How MHORR is used
Countable; found mainly in zoology and conservation writing.
- The zoo runs a breeding programme for the endangered mhorr.
- A mhorr can be told from other gazelles by its chestnut neck patch.
- The last wild mhorr herds vanished from the Sahara decades ago.
- Captive mhorr populations now outnumber any left in the desert.
- Early travellers described the mhorr as pale as sand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MHORR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MHORR
1 longer words begin with MHORR.
Shorter words from the letters in MHORR
Common questions about MHORR
- Is MHORR valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MHORR is not in it.
- How many points is MHORR worth?
- MHORR is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MHORR mean?
- A large, pale gazelle native to North Africa, now among the rarest of desert antelopes.
- What letters can be added to MHORR?
- MHORR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MHORR:
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