SURRA is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SURRA 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 SURRA?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SURRA is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SURRA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
surrasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SURRA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SURRA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What does SURRA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A wasting disease of horses, camels, and other animals, caused by a blood parasite and spread by biting flies, found chiefly in parts of Asia, Africa, and South America.
Surra is caused by a trypanosome parasite that infects the blood of horses, camels, cattle, and other animals, carried from one animal to another mainly by horseflies and similar biting insects. Infected animals grow progressively weaker, lose weight, and often die if surra is not treated with anti-parasitic drugs. The disease has long troubled working animals in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where it can cripple transport and agriculture dependent on horses and camels. The name comes from a Marathi and Hindi word meaning rotten or worn out, describing the animal's decline from surra.
How SURRA is used
Technical, used in veterinary medicine for this parasitic disease of horses, camels, and livestock.
- The camel showed the classic weight loss of advanced surra.
- Biting flies spread surra from one herd to the next.
- Vets treated the outbreak of surra with anti-parasitic injections.
- Surra had weakened the transport horses before the campaign even began.
- Researchers studied how climate affected the spread of surra among livestock.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SURRA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SURRA
1 longer words begin with SURRA.
Words with SURRA inside
7 words contain SURRA in the middle. Words that start with SURRA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SURRA
Common questions about SURRA
- Is SURRA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SURRA, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SURRA worth?
- SURRA is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SURRA mean?
- A wasting disease of horses, camels, and other animals, caused by a blood parasite and spread by biting flies, found chiefly in parts of Asia, Africa, and South America.
- What letters can be added to SURRA?
- SURRA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SURRA:
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