NORIA is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. NORIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NORIA?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NORIA is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NORIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
noriasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NORIA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NORIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,227.
What does NORIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalhistorical
A machine for raising water from a river or well, consisting of a chain or wheel of buckets or pots turned by the current, an animal, or a small motor.
A noria works like a wheel dipping into moving water, so that each bucket fills as it dips below the surface and empties automatically as it turns over the top, feeding an irrigation channel. The device was widely used across the Middle East, Spain and North Africa for centuries before electric pumps became common, and a few restored examples still turn today as historical monuments. Unlike a simple bucket on a rope, a noria needs no one to operate it once the current or an animal keeps it moving. The word entered English from Spanish, itself borrowed from Arabic.
How NORIA is used
Mostly found in writing about historical irrigation, water engineering, or Middle Eastern and Spanish architecture rather than in everyday speech.
- The wooden noria creaked as it lifted water from the river into the channel.
- Tourists photograph the great norias still turning on the riverbank.
- An ox once walked in circles to drive the noria at the old mill.
- Engineers restored the noria so visitors could see how it once irrigated the fields.
- Each bucket on the noria tipped its water into the trough at the top of the turn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NORIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NORIA
1 longer words begin with NORIA.
Words ending in NORIA
3 words end in NORIA. Useful as a back hook: play NORIA onto a word already on the board.
Words with NORIA inside
7 words contain NORIA in the middle. Words that start with NORIA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NORIA
Common questions about NORIA
- Is NORIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NORIA, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NORIA worth?
- NORIA is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NORIA mean?
- A machine for raising water from a river or well, consisting of a chain or wheel of buckets or pots turned by the current, an animal, or a small motor.
- What letters can be added to NORIA?
- NORIA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NORIA:
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