SLURB is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SLURB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLURB?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SLURB is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLURB
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
slurbsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SLURB scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SLURB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What stands out about SLURB
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SLURB mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalrare
An area of poorly planned, visually unattractive suburban development, spreading outward without any clear order.
Slurb blends slum and suburb into a single word, coined to criticise the kind of hurried postwar housing sprawl that filled fields with look-alike streets, strip malls and parking lots but left little sense of a proper town centre. Writers and planners reached for slurb specifically to capture the mix of shabbiness and suburban monotony that a plain word like sprawl does not quite convey on its own. Unlike a slum, a slurb is not necessarily poor or run-down in the traditional sense, since the houses themselves may be new and comfortable; the complaint is about ugliness, repetition and poor planning rather than poverty. The word never became everyday vocabulary and survives mostly in writing about urban planning and mid-twentieth-century American suburban growth.
How SLURB is used
A rare, informal word used mainly in critical writing about urban planning and suburban sprawl rather than in everyday conversation.
- Critics of postwar housing policy described the new estates as a spreading slurb.
- The planner's report warned that unchecked growth would turn the valley into a slurb.
- Rows of identical houses along the highway struck her as a textbook slurb.
- He blamed cheap land and car culture for the rise of the American slurb.
- The documentary contrasted the old town centre with the featureless slurb around it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLURB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLURB
The 5 tiles of SLURB in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SLURB
2 longer words begin with SLURB.
Shorter words from the letters in SLURB
Common questions about SLURB
- Is SLURB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLURB, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLURB worth?
- SLURB is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLURB mean?
- An area of poorly planned, visually unattractive suburban development, spreading outward without any clear order.
- What letters can be added to SLURB?
- SLURB takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SLURB:
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