URIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. URIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URIAL?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URIAL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URIAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URIAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in URIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does URIAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A wild sheep native to the mountains of Central and South Asia, known for its reddish-brown coat and long curved horns.
The urial lives in dry hill country stretching from Iran through Pakistan and into parts of Central Asia, usually gathering in small herds that graze on sparse mountain vegetation. Males carry the long curling horns typical of wild sheep, while females grow much smaller ones. Because its range overlaps with farmland and villages, the urial has come under pressure from hunting and shrinking habitat in several regions.
How URIAL is used
Used in zoology and wildlife writing when describing wild sheep species of Central and South Asia.
- A herd of urial grazed on the rocky hillside at dawn.
- The male urial's curved horns can grow far longer than the female's.
- Conservationists tracked the urial population across the mountain range.
- Hunters in the region once prized the urial for its meat and horns.
- The urial shares its dry mountain habitat with several other wild sheep.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URIAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of URIAL
The 5 tiles of URIAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with URIAL
1 longer words begin with URIAL.
Words ending in URIAL
16 words end in URIAL. Useful as a back hook: play URIAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with URIAL inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain URIAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with URIAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URIAL
Common questions about URIAL
- Is URIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URIAL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URIAL worth?
- URIAL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URIAL mean?
- A wild sheep native to the mountains of Central and South Asia, known for its reddish-brown coat and long curved horns.
- What letters can be added to URIAL?
- URIAL takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of URIAL:
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