OUR is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. OUR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OUR?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUR is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 12 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OUR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OUR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What does OUR mean in Scrabble?
pronoun
Belonging to us.
Our keeps a separate standing form, ours, with an s that the other possessives handle differently. Neither our nor ours ever takes an apostrophe, and both are given one regularly by people who should know.
How OUR is used
Before the noun. The standing form is ours.
- Our house is the one with the blue door.
- The word our never takes an apostrophe.
- Ours is the standing form and our comes before a noun.
- Our two dogs and their one cat.
- That was our decision and nobody else's.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OUR
21 longer words begin with OUR.
Words ending in OUR
Showing 24 of 141 words that end in OUR. Useful as a back hook: play OUR onto a word already on the board.
Words with OUR inside
Showing 24 of 1347 words that contain OUR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OUR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OUR
Common questions about OUR
- Is OUR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUR, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUR worth?
- OUR is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUR mean?
- Belonging to us.
- What letters can be added to OUR?
- OUR takes 12 hooks: 10 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OUR:
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