OORALI is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. OORALI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OORALI?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OORALI is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OORALI
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OORALI scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OORALI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,900.
What does OORALI mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalhistorical
A South American plant used by indigenous peoples to prepare a poison applied to the tips of arrows and darts.
Oorali refers to the source plant from which hunters in the Amazon region extracted a potent paralyzing poison, applied to hunting weapons to subdue prey quickly. Early European travellers recorded the word in several spellings, including ourali and woorali, before the name curare became the standard term for the extracted poison itself. Botanists and historians of medicine still use oorali when discussing the plant rather than the finished poison.
How OORALI is used
A historical and technical term, now mostly seen in accounts of Amazonian plant lore and the history of curare.
- Explorers described how local hunters prepared oorali for their blowpipe darts.
- The botanist catalogued oorali among the vines used for arrow poison.
- Old travel journals spell the plant oorali, ourali, or woorali interchangeably.
- Researchers traced modern curare back to extracts of oorali and related vines.
- The museum exhibit on Amazonian hunting mentioned oorali and its uses.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OORALI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OORALI
The 6 tiles of OORALI in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OORALI
1 longer words begin with OORALI.
Shorter words from the letters in OORALI
Common questions about OORALI
- Is OORALI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OORALI, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OORALI worth?
- OORALI is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OORALI mean?
- A South American plant used by indigenous peoples to prepare a poison applied to the tips of arrows and darts.
- What letters can be added to OORALI?
- OORALI takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OORALI:
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