PUER is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. PUER is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PUER?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUER is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUER scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PUER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What does PUER mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicaltechnical
Dog dung, used in an old method of preparing hides for tanning.
Puer was worked into hides during the bating stage of leather-making, where an alkaline solution drawn from dung helped soften the skin and remove waste matter left over from earlier stages, before the hide went on to the tanning proper. The trade that collected puer from city streets for tanners largely disappeared once chemical alternatives replaced it in the nineteenth century.
How PUER is used
Historical and technical, in leather tanning; also used as a verb, to puer a hide.
- Tanners once bought puer by the barrel from street collectors.
- The hide was worked in puer before it went to the tan pits.
- To puer a skin softened it ahead of proper tanning.
- Chemical baths replaced puer within a single generation.
- Few modern tanners have ever handled puer at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PUER
The 4 tiles of PUER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PUER
15 longer words begin with PUER.
Words ending in PUER
1 words end in PUER. Useful as a back hook: play PUER onto a word already on the board.
Words with PUER inside
3 words contain PUER in the middle. Words that start with PUER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUER
Common questions about PUER
- Is PUER valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PUER is not in it.
- How many points is PUER worth?
- PUER is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUER mean?
- Dog dung, used in an old method of preparing hides for tanning.
- What letters can be added to PUER?
- PUER takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PUER:
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