What USURPS Means
USURPS is a form of USURP, which means:
- verb: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession“He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town”
- verb: take the place of“gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
USURPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as U1 S1 U1 R1 P3 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In USURPS
19 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
5 letter words (2)
4 letter words (7)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (3)
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