URBS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. URBS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URBS?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URBS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URBS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How URBS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in URBS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What stands out about URBS
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does URBS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryhistorical
A city, especially ancient Rome, from the Latin word for city.
Urbs is the Latin noun for city and was carried into English by writers discussing Roman history, where the Urbs meant Rome itself as the empire's capital. Later writers borrowed the word more loosely for any city when they wanted a classical flavour.
How URBS is used
Learned or historical; appears in scholarly writing rather than ordinary conversation.
- Historians still call ancient Rome the Urbs, using the Latin word urbs for the city itself.
- The lecture traced how urbs came to mean any large town in medieval Latin documents.
- He described the busy market square as the beating heart of the urbs.
- The plaque used the Latin urbs rather than the English city to sound grander.
- Scholars of Roman law often keep the word urbs untranslated in their footnotes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URBS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of URBS
The 4 tiles of URBS in a different order — 3 found.
Words ending in URBS
13 words end in URBS. Useful as a back hook: play URBS onto a word already on the board.
Words with URBS inside
4 words contain URBS in the middle. Words that start with URBS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URBS
Common questions about URBS
- Is URBS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URBS, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URBS worth?
- URBS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URBS mean?
- A city, especially ancient Rome, from the Latin word for city.
- What letters can be added to URBS?
- URBS takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of URBS:
Open URBS in the Word Finder