URBIA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. URBIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URBIA?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URBIA is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URBIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
urbiasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URBIA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in URBIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does URBIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
Cities considered together as a whole, as distinct from the countryside.
Urbia is a rare collective noun that groups cities together the way rural areas make up the country. Dictionaries record urbia as the built-up, city counterpart to open countryside, though the word rarely appears outside specialised word lists and older reference works. Its ending echoes Latin-derived place names such as suburbia, which shares the same root idea of a settled, populated area.
How URBIA is used
Rare; encountered mainly in dictionaries and word lists rather than in ordinary prose.
- The essay contrasted urbia with the quiet of the countryside.
- Skyscrapers and crowded streets are typical images of urbia.
- He described modern urbia as noisy and endlessly busy.
- The map divided the region into urbia and open farmland.
- Few writers now use urbia instead of the more common city or urban area.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URBIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of URBIA
The 5 tiles of URBIA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with URBIA
1 longer words begin with URBIA.
Words ending in URBIA
3 words end in URBIA. Useful as a back hook: play URBIA onto a word already on the board.
Words with URBIA inside
3 words contain URBIA in the middle. Words that start with URBIA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URBIA
Common questions about URBIA
- Is URBIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URBIA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URBIA worth?
- URBIA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URBIA mean?
- Cities considered together as a whole, as distinct from the countryside.
- What letters can be added to URBIA?
- URBIA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of URBIA:
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