PURDA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PURDA 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 PURDA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PURDA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PURDA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PURDA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PURDA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does PURDA mean in Scrabble?
noun
A variant spelling of purdah, the practice observed in parts of the Muslim and Hindu world of secluding women from the sight of men outside their immediate family, traditionally through veiling, screening or separate living quarters.
Communities that observe purda restrict how and where women appear before men who are not close relatives, using methods that have ranged historically from covering garments and veils to walls, curtains and separate rooms within a household. The word purda comes from Persian and Urdu, where it originally meant simply a curtain, a sense that survives in the everyday, non-religious use of the same word for household drapery. Writers on South Asian and Middle Eastern history and society use purda and its more common spelling purdah interchangeably, since both refer to the same set of customs rather than to different practices. The degree to which purda is observed varies widely between regions, communities and individual families, from strict seclusion to a much looser, symbolic form.
How PURDA is used
Used mainly in writing about South Asian and Middle Eastern culture, history and religion; purdah is the more common spelling, purda a recognised variant.
- The book described how strictly purda was once observed in the household.
- Her grandmother had lived much of her early life in purda.
- Historians studied how purda shaped women's daily routines in the region.
- The family gradually relaxed the rules of purda over two generations.
- Scholars debate how purda differs from one community to another.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PURDA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PURDA
4 longer words begin with PURDA.
Shorter words from the letters in PURDA
Common questions about PURDA
- Is PURDA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PURDA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PURDA worth?
- PURDA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PURDA mean?
- A variant spelling of purdah, the practice observed in parts of the Muslim and Hindu world of secluding women from the sight of men outside their immediate family, traditionally through veiling, screening or separate living quarters.
- What letters can be added to PURDA?
- PURDA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PURDA:
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