OMBRE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. OMBRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OMBRE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OMBRE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OMBRE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OMBRE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OMBRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What stands out about OMBRE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does OMBRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, played with a forty-card deck; also spelled omber.
Ombre reached the height of its popularity in fashionable European drawing rooms, where three players competed to win as many tricks as possible after one of them declared themselves the ombre, or attacking player. The game travelled from Spain across Europe and even appears in literature of the period, most famously in a card scene from an eighteenth-century English poem. The same word, from an unrelated root, also names a Mediterranean food fish known elsewhere as umbrine. In recent decades, fashion and beauty writers have adopted a similar-sounding term for hair or fabric that shades gradually from dark to light, though that sense is unrelated to the historic card game.
How OMBRE is used
Ombre is now mainly a historical term, encountered in accounts of eighteenth-century card games and older literature rather than modern play.
- Guests at the party settled down to a game of ombre after dinner.
- The novel describes an evening spent playing ombre by candlelight.
- Winning at ombre required both a strong hand and a clear head.
- Historians study old rule books to understand how ombre was actually played.
- The engraving shows three ladies seated around a table playing ombre.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OMBRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OMBRE
The 5 tiles of OMBRE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with OMBRE
3 longer words begin with OMBRE.
Words ending in OMBRE
2 words end in OMBRE. Useful as a back hook: play OMBRE onto a word already on the board.
Words with OMBRE inside
14 words contain OMBRE in the middle. Words that start with OMBRE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OMBRE
Common questions about OMBRE
- Is OMBRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OMBRE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OMBRE worth?
- OMBRE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OMBRE mean?
- A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, played with a forty-card deck; also spelled omber.
- What letters can be added to OMBRE?
- OMBRE takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OMBRE:
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