GRUME is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. GRUME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GRUME?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GRUME is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GRUME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
grumesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GRUME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GRUME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does GRUME mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalrare
A thick, viscous fluid, especially a clot or half-clotted mass of blood.
Older medical and anatomical writing used grume to describe blood that had begun to thicken and clot rather than flow freely, a state doctors once linked to poor circulation or a wound closing. The word can also describe any similarly thick, sticky fluid outside the medical context, though this broader use is rare today. Because grume belongs mostly to older texts, modern medical writing prefers plainer terms such as clot or coagulated blood. The related adjective grumous, meaning clotted or lumpy, survives a little more often in descriptions of thickened bodily fluids.
How GRUME is used
A rare and largely archaic term, encountered mainly in older medical writing or historical fiction describing wounds and blood.
- A dark grume had formed around the edge of the wound.
- The old medical text described a grume of clotted blood.
- Surgeons cleared the grume before closing the incision.
- A thick grume clung to the bandage.
- The wound left a grume that took days to fully clear.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GRUME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GRUME
1 longer words begin with GRUME.
Shorter words from the letters in GRUME
Common questions about GRUME
- Is GRUME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GRUME, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GRUME worth?
- GRUME is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GRUME mean?
- A thick, viscous fluid, especially a clot or half-clotted mass of blood.
- What letters can be added to GRUME?
- GRUME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GRUME:
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