GRADUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. GRADUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GRADUS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GRADUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GRADUS
No single letter turns GRADUS into another word.
How GRADUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GRADUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does GRADUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literarymusic
A reference book of Latin or Greek prosody once used to help students compose classical verse, or, in music, a graded book of technical exercises such as a gradus ad Parnassum.
The original gradus, short for the Latin phrase gradus ad Parnassum meaning steps to Parnassus, listed the correct scansion of Latin and Greek words so that schoolboys composing verse in those languages could check which syllables were long or short. The same title was borrowed for music, most famously by the composer Muzio Clementi, whose collection of graded piano studies is still known as the Gradus ad Parnassum and used to build technique step by step. In both fields, a gradus works as a structured aid that carries the student upward in difficulty, echoing the image of climbing steps toward mastery. Modern students of Latin verse now rely on other reference tools, so the literary sense of gradus survives mainly in accounts of older classical education.
How GRADUS is used
A specialized term from classical education and music theory, rarely used outside descriptions of older teaching methods.
- The schoolboy checked his verse against the gradus before handing in his Latin exercise.
- Pianists still practice from Clementi's famous gradus of graded studies.
- The old classroom shelf held a worn gradus for Latin composition.
- Her teacher assigned a gradus to build finger technique gradually.
- Historians describe how every grammar school once kept a gradus on hand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GRADUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GRADUS
The 6 tiles of GRADUS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GRADUS
1 longer words begin with GRADUS.
Shorter words from the letters in GRADUS
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Common questions about GRADUS
- Is GRADUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GRADUS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GRADUS worth?
- GRADUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GRADUS mean?
- A reference book of Latin or Greek prosody once used to help students compose classical verse, or, in music, a graded book of technical exercises such as a gradus ad Parnassum.
- What letters can be added to GRADUS?
- No single letter can be added to GRADUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GRADUS:
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