TAYRA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TAYRA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TAYRA?
| 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 TAYRA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAYRA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tayrasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TAYRA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAYRA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about TAYRA
- 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 TAYRA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A large, dark-coated, tree-dwelling mammal of the weasel family, native to forests from Mexico through Central and South America.
A tayra has a long body, a bushy tail and short legs suited to moving quickly along branches as well as on the ground, and it hunts small mammals, birds, insects and fruit across a wide range of tropical and subtropical forest. Naturalists classify the tayra within the same family as weasels, otters and badgers, though it is considerably larger than a typical weasel and far more at home climbing trees than most of its relatives. Local names for the same animal vary across its range, and taira is recorded as an alternative spelling drawn from the same source in the Tupi language. Because it favours dense forest and is mostly active at dawn, dusk or night, a tayra is far more often described in field guides and nature writing than actually seen by casual visitors.
How TAYRA is used
Used in zoology and nature writing about Central and South American wildlife, naming a large weasel-family mammal.
- A tayra darted along the branch and vanished into the canopy.
- Researchers fitted a tracking collar on the tayra to study its range.
- The tayra hunted small rodents near the forest edge at dusk.
- Local farmers occasionally spot a tayra raiding fruit trees.
- The field guide described the tayra as agile in both trees and undergrowth.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAYRA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TAYRA
The 5 tiles of TAYRA in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TAYRA
1 longer words begin with TAYRA.
Shorter words from the letters in TAYRA
Common questions about TAYRA
- Is TAYRA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TAYRA, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TAYRA worth?
- TAYRA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAYRA mean?
- A large, dark-coated, tree-dwelling mammal of the weasel family, native to forests from Mexico through Central and South America.
- What letters can be added to TAYRA?
- TAYRA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAYRA:
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