URSA is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. URSA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URSA?
| 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 URSA is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URSA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How URSA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in URSA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about URSA
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 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 URSA mean in Scrabble?
noun
literarypoetic
A female bear, a word met chiefly in the constellation names Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Ursa is simply Latin for a she-bear, and English kept the word almost entirely inside the two constellation names, the Great Bear and the Little Bear. Older poetic writing, though, occasionally used ursa on its own for a bear.
How URSA is used
Rare outside the constellation names; treat as literary or specialist rather than everyday vocabulary.
- The old star chart labelled the shape simply as Ursa.
- Ursa Major wheeled slowly above the northern horizon.
- The poet compared the sleeping hound to a small ursa by the fire.
- Ursa Minor holds the star sailors once steered by.
- An engraving showed an ursa rearing beneath the northern stars.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URSA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of URSA
The 4 tiles of URSA in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with URSA
1 longer words begin with URSA.
Words ending in URSA
1 words end in URSA. Useful as a back hook: play URSA onto a word already on the board.
Words with URSA inside
24 words contain URSA in the middle. Words that start with URSA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URSA
Common questions about URSA
- Is URSA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URSA, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URSA worth?
- URSA is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URSA mean?
- A female bear, a word met chiefly in the constellation names Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- What letters can be added to URSA?
- URSA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of URSA:
Open URSA in the Word Finder