OURIE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. OURIE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OURIE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OURIE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OURIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How OURIE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OURIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,631.
What does OURIE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsdialect
Cold, shivering, or looking miserable and exposed, especially in bleak or wet weather.
Ourie describes the pinched, huddled look of someone standing out in raw wind or rain, and it can just as easily describe the weather itself when a day feels bleak and cheerless. The word belongs to Scots and northern English speech and has no single everyday English word that carries quite the same mix of cold and dejection. Writers who want a landscape or a character to feel exposed and unloved often reach for ourie rather than a plainer word like cold.
How OURIE is used
Chiefly Scots and northern English dialect; found in regional speech and in writing that draws on that tradition rather than in standard prose.
- The sheep stood ourie against the dyke while the sleet came in sideways.
- He looked ourie and half frozen after the long walk home.
- An ourie wind cut across the harbour all afternoon.
- She wrapped the ourie child in a blanket by the fire.
- The whole glen felt ourie under the low grey cloud.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OURIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OURIE
2 longer words begin with OURIE.
Words ending in OURIE
6 words end in OURIE. Useful as a back hook: play OURIE onto a word already on the board.
Words with OURIE inside
Showing 24 of 31 words that contain OURIE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OURIE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OURIE
Common questions about OURIE
- Is OURIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OURIE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OURIE worth?
- OURIE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OURIE mean?
- Cold, shivering, or looking miserable and exposed, especially in bleak or wet weather.
- What letters can be added to OURIE?
- OURIE takes 5 hooks: 4 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OURIE:
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