PARURE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PARURE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PARURE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PARURE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PARURE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
paruresChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PARURE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PARURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 91,979.
What does PARURE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A complete set of matching jewelry, such as a necklace, earrings, a brooch, and a bracelet, meant to be worn together.
A parure was assembled and sold as a single investment rather than as separate pieces, so every item shared the same stones, metalwork, and design, letting a wearer put on the entire set for one formal occasion. The word came into English from French jewelers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and it still turns up mainly in descriptions of antique or museum jewelry rather than everyday shopping. A parure was usually kept in its own fitted case, since taking one piece out for daily wear broke up the intended display. Auction houses and costume historians use the word today when cataloguing complete historical sets rather than single items.
How PARURE is used
Mostly used by jewelers, auctioneers, and historians describing complete antique jewelry sets rather than single pieces.
- The museum displayed a nineteenth-century parure of sapphires and diamonds in its own velvet case.
- She inherited her grandmother's parure but had never worn every piece together.
- The auction catalogue listed the parure as five matching pieces sold as one lot.
- A full parure was too formal for anything but the grandest occasion.
- Collectors paid more for the complete parure than for the pieces sold separately.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PARURE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PARURE
The 6 tiles of PARURE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PARURE
5 longer words begin with PARURE.
Shorter words from the letters in PARURE
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Common questions about PARURE
- Is PARURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PARURE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PARURE worth?
- PARURE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PARURE mean?
- A complete set of matching jewelry, such as a necklace, earrings, a brooch, and a bracelet, meant to be worn together.
- What letters can be added to PARURE?
- PARURE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PARURE:
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