OURARI is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. OURARI 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 OURARI?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OURARI is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OURARI
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ourarisChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OURARI scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OURARI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 30,660.
What does OURARI mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A resinous poison extracted from certain South American plants, used traditionally on arrow and dart tips to paralyze prey; another name for curare.
Ourari was gathered by South American peoples from the bark and stems of certain vines and boiled down into a thick paste. Hunters coated the tips of arrows and blowgun darts with ourari because even a small wound delivered enough of the poison to paralyze the muscles of prey. The same substance is better known today under the name curare, and it later became important in medicine as a source of muscle relaxants used during surgery. Ourari now appears mainly in older travel accounts and natural-history writing rather than in everyday speech.
How OURARI is used
A specialist term found in ethnobotany and the history of exploration, rather than in modern conversation.
- Amazonian hunters tipped their darts with ourari before setting out.
- The explorer described how ourari was boiled slowly over a fire.
- Modern anesthetics owe part of their history to ourari and its paralyzing effect.
- Naturalists collected samples of ourari from several tribes along the river.
- Without an antidote, a wound touched by ourari could prove fatal within minutes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OURARI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OURARI
1 longer words begin with OURARI.
Shorter words from the letters in OURARI
Common questions about OURARI
- Is OURARI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OURARI, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OURARI worth?
- OURARI is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OURARI mean?
- A resinous poison extracted from certain South American plants, used traditionally on arrow and dart tips to paralyze prey; another name for curare.
- What letters can be added to OURARI?
- OURARI takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OURARI:
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