Urus
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A large, now-extinct wild ox that once roamed Europe and western Asia, regarded as an ancestor of modern domestic cattle.
“Cave paintings at Lascaux may depict the urus alongside other Ice Age megafauna.”
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u·rus
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Contains two U vowels around R and S, an unusual vowel-heavy pattern that can confuse guessers
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The double U lets you dump two difficult tiles at once, worth modest points but valid in most dictionaries
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