YURT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. YURT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YURT?
| 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 YURT is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YURT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YURT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in YURT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,615.
What does YURT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A round tent of felt over a wooden frame, used across Central Asia.
A yurt goes up in an hour or two and stands through a winter that would flatten anything lighter: the lattice walls fold, the roof poles fan out from a ring, and the whole thing loads onto a couple of animals. It has been built almost unchanged for a very long time, which is unusual for any kind of dwelling.
How YURT is used
Countable: a yurt, two yurts. In Mongolia the same dwelling is a ger.
- The yurt was up before the light went.
- A yurt takes two people an hour and one person most of a day.
- Snow slides off a yurt that has been pitched properly.
- They heat the yurt with a stove and a pipe through the roof ring.
- The frame of a yurt outlasts several coverings.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YURT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YURT
3 longer words begin with YURT.
Shorter words from the letters in YURT
Common questions about YURT
- Is YURT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YURT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YURT worth?
- YURT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YURT mean?
- A round tent of felt over a wooden frame, used across Central Asia.
- What letters can be added to YURT?
- YURT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of YURT:
Open YURT in the Word Finder