MURE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. MURE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MURE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MURE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MURE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MURE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What does MURE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To wall up or shut a person away within walls; to imprison.
To mure someone was to confine them by building or sealing walls around the space they were kept in, an image drawn straight from the Latin murus for wall. The verb survives today mainly in its relative immure, and mure itself is now met chiefly in older or self-consciously archaic writing.
How MURE is used
Archaic and literary; rare outside older texts and words built on the same root such as immure.
- The old tale tells how the king had the traitor mured within the castle wall.
- To mure a prisoner in a tower was once thought a fitting punishment for treason.
- The monks would mure themselves away for weeks of silent prayer.
- Chroniclers wrote that the queen ordered her rival to be mured alive.
- The poem imagines a heart mured behind walls of grief.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MURE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MURE
The 4 tiles of MURE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with MURE
8 longer words begin with MURE.
Words ending in MURE
9 words end in MURE. Useful as a back hook: play MURE onto a word already on the board.
Words with MURE inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain MURE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MURE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MURE
Common questions about MURE
- Is MURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MURE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MURE worth?
- MURE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MURE mean?
- To wall up or shut a person away within walls; to imprison.
- What letters can be added to MURE?
- MURE takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MURE:
Open MURE in the Word Finder