URBANISE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. URBANISE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URBANISE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URBANISE is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URBANISE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URBANISE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in URBANISE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so URBANISE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about URBANISE
- All 8 letters of URBANISE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does URBANISE mean in Scrabble?
verb
British
To make an area more like a town or city, or to become so.
Countryside urbanises when homes, roads and shops replace farms. The verb urbanise can also mean giving people city habits. Planners and sociologists use it for long, large-scale change.
How URBANISE is used
Used in planning, geography and sociology; the -ize spelling is also common.
- Rapid growth began to urbanise the valley.
- Many countries urbanise faster than they can build homes.
- The council did not want to urbanise the coast.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URBANISE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of URBANISE
The 8 tiles of URBANISE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with URBANISE
2 longer words begin with URBANISE.
Shorter words from the letters in URBANISE
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Common questions about URBANISE
- Is URBANISE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URBANISE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URBANISE worth?
- URBANISE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URBANISE mean?
- To make an area more like a town or city, or to become so.
- What letters can be added to URBANISE?
- URBANISE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of URBANISE:
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