URARE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. URARE 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 URARE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URARE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URARE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URARE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in URARE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 11,618.
What does URARE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A poisonous plant extract, also known as curare, once used by South American peoples to coat arrow and dart tips.
Hunters in tropical South America boiled the bark and stems of certain vines to make urare, then coated the tips of arrows and blowgun darts with the thick paste so that even a small wound would paralyze prey. The poison works by blocking signals between nerves and muscles, which is why victims lose the ability to move long before the poison affects the heart. European scientists who studied urare in the nineteenth century eventually adapted its muscle-relaxing action for use in modern surgery, under the more familiar spelling curare. Urare itself is simply an older or alternate spelling of that better-known name, used mainly in older accounts of South American hunting practices.
How URARE is used
A rare, mostly historical spelling found in older accounts of South American hunting poisons, less common today than curare.
- Hunters tipped their darts with urare before the hunt.
- The explorer's journal describes how urare was prepared from tree bark.
- A small dose of urare could paralyze a monkey within minutes.
- Early researchers puzzled over how urare stopped muscles from working.
- Museum displays sometimes label old dart poison simply as urare.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URARE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with URARE
1 longer words begin with URARE.
Words ending in URARE
1 words end in URARE. Useful as a back hook: play URARE onto a word already on the board.
Words with URARE inside
1 words contain URARE in the middle. Words that start with URARE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URARE
Common questions about URARE
- Is URARE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URARE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URARE worth?
- URARE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URARE mean?
- A poisonous plant extract, also known as curare, once used by South American peoples to coat arrow and dart tips.
- What letters can be added to URARE?
- URARE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of URARE:
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