NURSE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. NURSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NURSE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NURSE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NURSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NURSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NURSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does NURSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person trained to care for the sick, the injured, or the very young, especially one working in a hospital, clinic, or home.
A nurse carries out much of the direct, hands-on care that a patient receives day to day, from giving medicine and dressing wounds to monitoring vital signs and comforting someone who is frightened or in pain. Modern nursing is a licensed profession with its own training, examinations, and specialities, ranging from surgical nursing to midwifery and mental health care. The word also survives in an older sense, a woman employed to breastfeed or look after a young child, which is where related terms like wet nurse and nursery come from. Both senses share the same core idea of a nurse being someone whose job is to look after another person's wellbeing.
How NURSE is used
The everyday sense refers to a medical professional; the older childcare sense mostly survives in compounds such as wet nurse rather than in the word alone.
- The nurse checked his temperature before the doctor arrived.
- She trained for three years to become a nurse.
- A district nurse visits elderly patients in their own homes.
- In Victorian households, a nurse was hired to look after the children.
- The nurse changed the bandage and reassured the anxious patient.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NURSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NURSE
The 5 tiles of NURSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with NURSE
19 longer words begin with NURSE.
Words ending in NURSE
2 words end in NURSE. Useful as a back hook: play NURSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with NURSE inside
3 words contain NURSE in the middle. Words that start with NURSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NURSE
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Common questions about NURSE
- Is NURSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NURSE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NURSE worth?
- NURSE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NURSE mean?
- A person trained to care for the sick, the injured, or the very young, especially one working in a hospital, clinic, or home.
- What letters can be added to NURSE?
- NURSE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NURSE:
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