SCAUR is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SCAUR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCAUR?
| 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 SCAUR is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCAUR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCAUR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCAUR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does SCAUR mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
A steep, rocky bank or cliff, especially one exposed by a river or the sea.
A scaur is essentially the same feature as a scar in the geological sense, a bare, precipitous face of rock left where water has cut away the softer ground around it, and the spelling scaur is simply the form preferred in Scots and northern English writing. River scaurs form where a current undercuts a bank over years, leaving a sheer drop that walkers and grazing animals learn to avoid. The word can also work as a verb in Scots, to scaur someone, meaning to startle or scare them, a sense that shares only its sound with the landscape word rather than its meaning. Writers describing the Scottish or northern English countryside still reach for scaur where a southern English writer would more likely say cliff, bluff or crag.
How SCAUR is used
A Scots and northern English dialect word for a rocky cliff or bank; the verb sense meaning to startle is a separate, less common use.
- The path followed the river close beside a steep scaur.
- Sheep grazed carefully along the top of the scaur, well back from the edge.
- Erosion had carved a new scaur into the riverbank over the winter.
- The old ballad describes a rider falling from a scaur in the mist.
- Climbers practised on a low scaur before attempting the higher cliffs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCAUR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCAUR
The 5 tiles of SCAUR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SCAUR
5 longer words begin with SCAUR.
Shorter words from the letters in SCAUR
Common questions about SCAUR
- Is SCAUR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCAUR, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCAUR worth?
- SCAUR is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCAUR mean?
- A steep, rocky bank or cliff, especially one exposed by a river or the sea.
- What letters can be added to SCAUR?
- SCAUR takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCAUR:
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