FRUSH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. FRUSH 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FRUSH?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FRUSH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FRUSH
No single letter turns FRUSH into another word.
How FRUSH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FRUSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does FRUSH mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Brittle and easily broken or crumbled, said of wood, stone or a hard crust.
A frush board or a frush crust snaps or crumbles under light pressure rather than bending. The word comes from older Scots and northern English dialect speech, where it described timber, biscuit or rock that had lost its toughness. It is unrelated to the modern sense of fresh, though the two look similar in print.
How FRUSH is used
Dialect; kept alive mostly in Scots and northern English glossaries rather than everyday speech.
- The old fence rail had gone frush and broke at the first push.
- Bakers avoided the frush loaf that fell apart on the board.
- Damp had left the beam frush and unsafe to lean on.
- A frush stone crumbles instead of splitting cleanly.
- The carpenter tested each plank for a frush edge before use.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FRUSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FRUSH
3 longer words begin with FRUSH.
Shorter words from the letters in FRUSH
Common questions about FRUSH
- Is FRUSH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FRUSH is not in it.
- How many points is FRUSH worth?
- FRUSH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FRUSH mean?
- Brittle and easily broken or crumbled, said of wood, stone or a hard crust.
- What letters can be added to FRUSH?
- No single letter can be added to FRUSH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FRUSH:
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