THURL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. THURL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THURL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THURL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THURL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
thurlsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THURL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THURL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does THURL mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialecttechnical
A hole or opening bored or cut through something, especially a passage connecting two underground mine workings; in farming and veterinary dialect, also the hip joint or haunch of a horse or cow.
Miners once used thurl for a narrow connecting passage cut between two parallel underground workings, allowing air, workers or material to pass from one tunnel to the other without returning to the surface. Away from mining, farmers and horse breeders use the same word in a completely different sense, naming the hip joint or haunch region of a horse or cow, a point judges examine closely when assessing an animal's build. Veterinary and livestock writing still relies on thurl when describing the angle or soundness of an animal's hindquarters, a use that has outlasted the mining sense in everyday speech. Both senses share the old underlying idea of a hole or joint where two parts meet, even though a modern reader is far more likely to meet the farming sense than the mining one.
How THURL is used
A dialect and technical term, used in older mining writing for a connecting underground passage and in farming or veterinary writing for the hip joint of a horse or cow.
- Miners cut a thurl between the two tunnels to improve ventilation.
- The judge examined the thurl of each horse before scoring it.
- A well-formed thurl is prized in dairy cattle judging.
- Old mine plans marked every thurl connecting the main shafts.
- The vet checked the horse's thurl for signs of strain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THURL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THURL
1 longer words begin with THURL.
Shorter words from the letters in THURL
Common questions about THURL
- Is THURL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THURL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THURL worth?
- THURL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THURL mean?
- A hole or opening bored or cut through something, especially a passage connecting two underground mine workings; in farming and veterinary dialect, also the hip joint or haunch of a horse or cow.
- What letters can be added to THURL?
- THURL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THURL:
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