WIRRA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. WIRRA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIRRA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WIRRA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIRRA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
wirrahChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How WIRRA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WIRRA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 30,983.
What does WIRRA mean in Scrabble?
interjection
Irishliterary
An Irish English exclamation of sorrow, regret or dismay, roughly equivalent to alas, often doubled as wirra wirra.
Writers representing Irish speech use wirra to open a lament or an expression of pity, much as alas or alack function in older standard English. The word derives from an Irish-language invocation, worn down through anglicised spelling into a simple cry of distress that no longer carries any specifically religious meaning for most speakers. Nineteenth-century novelists and playwrights portraying Irish characters frequently doubled the word as wirra wirra for extra emphasis, a pattern common with many exclamations of grief. Today wirra survives mainly in older literature, folklore collections and deliberately old-fashioned or dialect writing rather than in everyday conversation.
How WIRRA is used
Irish English and literary; met mainly in older literature, folklore and writing that represents Irish dialect speech.
- Wirra, what will become of us now, she cried.
- The old woman sighed wirra wirra over the empty cottage.
- He muttered wirra under his breath at the bad news.
- The ballad opens with a mournful cry of wirra.
- Wirra, said the storyteller, such misfortune had never been seen.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIRRA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WIRRA
2 longer words begin with WIRRA.
Shorter words from the letters in WIRRA
Common questions about WIRRA
- Is WIRRA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIRRA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIRRA worth?
- WIRRA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIRRA mean?
- An Irish English exclamation of sorrow, regret or dismay, roughly equivalent to alas, often doubled as wirra wirra.
- What letters can be added to WIRRA?
- WIRRA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WIRRA:
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