ORDURE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ORDURE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ORDURE?
| 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 ORDURE is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORDURE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ORDURE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ORDURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,738.
What does ORDURE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
Excrement or dung, especially of animals, or by extension anything considered filthy or vile.
Ordure names solid animal waste in its most literal sense, the kind once found in a barn, stable, or street before organized sanitation. Writers have long reached for ordure instead of plainer words when they want a formal or faintly disgusted tone, and the word extends easily into figurative use for language or writing regarded as vile or debased. Because it now sounds distinctly old-fashioned or literary, ordure appears far more often in historical fiction and satire than in everyday conversation. A related, equally formal word, ordurous, describes anything filthy or foul in the same register.
How ORDURE is used
A formal, somewhat literary noun for dung or filth, rarely used in casual speech.
- The stable hands shoveled ordure out of the stalls every morning.
- Medieval streets were often thick with ordure and refuse.
- The critic dismissed the pamphlet as pure ordure.
- Rain had turned the yard's ordure into a foul-smelling mess.
- The old chronicle complains of ordure piled against the city walls.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORDURE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ORDURE
The 6 tiles of ORDURE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ORDURE
1 longer words begin with ORDURE.
Shorter words from the letters in ORDURE
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Common questions about ORDURE
- Is ORDURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ORDURE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ORDURE worth?
- ORDURE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORDURE mean?
- Excrement or dung, especially of animals, or by extension anything considered filthy or vile.
- What letters can be added to ORDURE?
- ORDURE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ORDURE:
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