URARI is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. URARI 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 URARI?
| 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 URARI is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URARI
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URARI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in URARI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 15,491.
What does URARI mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A plant-based poison from South America, better known under the name curare, once used by indigenous hunters to coat the tips of arrows and darts.
Hunters mixed urari from tree bark and vine extracts, boiling the mixture down into a thick paste that stayed lethal for months. Prey struck with a urari-tipped dart lost muscle control within minutes, which let hunters bring down monkeys and birds high in the forest canopy. European travelers who wrote about urari in the nineteenth century helped carry the substance into early medical research on paralysis and anesthesia.
How URARI is used
Now mostly historical; urari appears in accounts of Amazonian hunting practices and the early history of curare research.
- The hunter dipped his dart into a paste of urari before aiming into the canopy.
- Nineteenth-century travelers described how urari paralyzed monkeys within moments.
- A vial of urari sat among the specimens collected on the Amazon expedition.
- Researchers later isolated the active compounds found in urari.
- Local guides warned that even a scratch from a urari-tipped dart could be fatal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URARI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with URARI
1 longer words begin with URARI.
Words ending in URARI
2 words end in URARI. Useful as a back hook: play URARI onto a word already on the board.
Words with URARI inside
18 words contain URARI in the middle. Words that start with URARI are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URARI
Common questions about URARI
- Is URARI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URARI, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URARI worth?
- URARI is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URARI mean?
- A plant-based poison from South America, better known under the name curare, once used by indigenous hunters to coat the tips of arrows and darts.
- What letters can be added to URARI?
- URARI takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of URARI:
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