URE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. URE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept URE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URE is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 10 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in URE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What does URE mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologyhistorical
A short dictionary spelling for the extinct wild ox better known as the urus or aurochs, kept alive mainly by word-game vocabulary lists.
Ure names the same animal more commonly known as the urus or aurochs, a large wild ox that once roamed across Europe before hunting and habitat loss drove it to extinction. Older natural-history writing used ure as a shorter alternative spelling, and the word survives today chiefly in word games and historical references to early cattle.
How URE is used
Used in historical and natural-history writing about early cattle rather than in everyday speech.
- Cave paintings are thought to show the ure alongside other large game.
- The naturalist compared the skull to that of a ure.
- Early hunters tracked the ure across the forest plains.
- Historians believe the ure vanished from Europe centuries ago.
- The museum reconstructed the size of a ure from old bones.
- Farmers once claimed their cattle descended from the wild ure.
- A carving of a ure decorated the old hunting lodge.
- Few written records describe the ure in detail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URE and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see URE
- Ure refers to the same animal usually called the urus or aurochs.
- That species, for which ure is an old name, is believed to have gone extinct well before modern record-keeping.
Anagrams of URE
The 3 tiles of URE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with URE
Showing 24 of 68 words that begin with URE.
Words ending in URE
Showing 24 of 488 words that end in URE. Useful as a back hook: play URE onto a word already on the board.
Words with URE inside
Showing 24 of 1345 words that contain URE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with URE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URE
Common questions about URE
- Is URE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and URE is not in it.
- How many points is URE worth?
- URE is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URE mean?
- A short dictionary spelling for the extinct wild ox better known as the urus or aurochs, kept alive mainly by word-game vocabulary lists.
- What letters can be added to URE?
- URE takes 10 hooks: 8 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of URE:
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