GRUNGE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. GRUNGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GRUNGE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GRUNGE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GRUNGE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GRUNGE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GRUNGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does GRUNGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
Dirt, grime, or an untidy, grubby state; also a style of loud, heavily distorted rock music and the deliberately scruffy fashion that grew up around it.
In everyday informal use grunge simply names grime or mess, the sort of grunge that collects on a neglected kitchen floor. The same word later attached itself to a genre of rock music that came out of Seattle in the late 1980s, built on fuzzy guitars and a flat, world-weary vocal style, and by extension to the layered, thrift-shop clothing its fans wore. Because both meanings share the idea of something unpolished and rough-edged, context usually makes clear which one a speaker intends.
How GRUNGE is used
Common and informal; used both for literal dirt and, since the 1990s, for the music genre and its fashion.
- He scrubbed weeks of grunge off the stove before the landlord arrived.
- Their record collection was heavy on grunge from the early nineties.
- The grunge on the windowsill had turned nearly black.
- She still dresses in grunge, all flannel shirts and torn denim.
- A layer of grunge coated every surface in the abandoned workshop.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GRUNGE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GRUNGE
4 longer words begin with GRUNGE.
Shorter words from the letters in GRUNGE
Common questions about GRUNGE
- Is GRUNGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GRUNGE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GRUNGE worth?
- GRUNGE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GRUNGE mean?
- Dirt, grime, or an untidy, grubby state; also a style of loud, heavily distorted rock music and the deliberately scruffy fashion that grew up around it.
- What letters can be added to GRUNGE?
- GRUNGE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GRUNGE:
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