TERRA is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. TERRA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TERRA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TERRA is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TERRA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TERRA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TERRA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,746.
What stands out about TERRA
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 TERRA mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
Earth or land, a Latin word kept in English chiefly within set phrases such as terra firma and terra incognita.
Terra rarely stands on its own in English and survives almost entirely inside borrowed Latin phrases, terra firma meaning solid ground and terra incognita meaning unknown territory on old maps. Cartographers once wrote terra incognita across the blank parts of a map where no explorer had yet reported what lay there. The same Latin root gives English many ordinary words built through French, including terrace, territory and terrestrial, though none of these is formed simply by adding letters to terra itself. On its own, terra reads as distinctly bookish rather than as part of everyday speech.
How TERRA is used
Rarely stands alone; almost always part of a fixed Latin phrase borrowed whole into English.
- After weeks at sea, they were glad to reach terra firma.
- The old map marked the interior simply as terra incognita.
- He joked that his own attic counted as terra incognita.
- The phrase terra firma comes straight from Latin for solid ground.
- Nothing on the chart explained what lay beyond the terra incognita.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TERRA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TERRA
The 5 tiles of TERRA in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with TERRA
Showing 24 of 36 words that begin with TERRA.
Words with TERRA inside
Showing 24 of 40 words that contain TERRA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TERRA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TERRA
Common questions about TERRA
- Is TERRA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TERRA, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TERRA worth?
- TERRA is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TERRA mean?
- Earth or land, a Latin word kept in English chiefly within set phrases such as terra firma and terra incognita.
- What letters can be added to TERRA?
- TERRA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TERRA:
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