STOUR is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. STOUR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STOUR?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STOUR is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STOUR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STOUR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STOUR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about STOUR
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 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 STOUR mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
Dust or fine powder, especially clouds of it raised into the air by wind, traffic, or disturbance; in older use also a fight or turmoil.
Stour is a Scots and northern English word for the swirling dust thrown up along a dry road, a threshing floor, or a battlefield. Older writers extended the same word to the turmoil of a fight itself, so a knight might ride into the stour of battle rather than merely its dust. The word survives today mostly in Scots speech and in poetry that reaches for an older, earthier vocabulary. Robert Burns and other Scots poets used stour often enough that it remains recognisable well beyond Scotland.
How STOUR is used
Chiefly Scots and northern English, and literary when used for battle; a country road in dry weather can still raise a stour.
- The cart raised a cloud of stour as it rattled down the lane.
- Wind blew stour across the empty threshing yard.
- The old ballad describes knights meeting amid the stour of battle.
- She wiped the stour from the windowsill after the storm.
- Every passing lorry left the village street thick with stour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STOUR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STOUR
The 5 tiles of STOUR in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with STOUR
7 longer words begin with STOUR.
Words with STOUR inside
4 words contain STOUR in the middle. Words that start with STOUR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in STOUR
Common questions about STOUR
- Is STOUR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STOUR, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STOUR worth?
- STOUR is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STOUR mean?
- Dust or fine powder, especially clouds of it raised into the air by wind, traffic, or disturbance; in older use also a fight or turmoil.
- What letters can be added to STOUR?
- STOUR takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STOUR:
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