URVA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. URVA 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 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept URVA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URVA is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URVA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URVA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in URVA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does URVA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A mongoose species native to South and Southeast Asia that feeds largely on crabs and other aquatic prey.
Urva populations favor marshes, rice paddies, and riverbanks, where they hunt frogs, crabs, and fish rather than the rodents typical of many other mongoose species. A pale stripe running from the mouth to the shoulder helps distinguish urva from related mongoose species in the field.
How URVA is used
Encountered mainly in zoological and wildlife field guides for South Asia.
- Researchers tracked an urva along the flooded rice paddies at dawn.
- The urva slipped into the water to snatch a crab from the mud.
- Local farmers occasionally spot an urva near irrigation channels.
- An urva was photographed hunting frogs along the riverbank.
- Wildlife guides describe the urva as mostly nocturnal and shy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URVA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with URVA
1 longer words begin with URVA.
Words ending in URVA
1 words end in URVA. Useful as a back hook: play URVA onto a word already on the board.
Words with URVA inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain URVA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with URVA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URVA
Common questions about URVA
- Is URVA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and URVA is not in it.
- How many points is URVA worth?
- URVA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URVA mean?
- A mongoose species native to South and Southeast Asia that feeds largely on crabs and other aquatic prey.
- What letters can be added to URVA?
- URVA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of URVA:
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