LUES is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. LUES is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LUES?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LUES is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LUES
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LUES scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in LUES, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What stands out about LUES
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does LUES mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A serious infectious disease, especially syphilis, from the Latin word for pestilence.
Lues was long used by physicians as a technical Latin term when writing about syphilis or, more broadly, any severe contagious disease. It still appears occasionally in older medical texts and veterinary writing where the everyday word disease would be too vague.
How LUES is used
Found chiefly in older or specialised medical literature rather than in ordinary speech.
- The physician diagnosed the patient with lues.
- Older textbooks list lues among the great contagious diseases.
- The report noted signs of congenital lues in the infant.
- He studied how lues spread through crowded barracks.
- The term lues appears throughout the nineteenth-century medical journal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LUES and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LUES
The 4 tiles of LUES in a different order — 2 found.
Words ending in LUES
24 words end in LUES. Useful as a back hook: play LUES onto a word already on the board.
Words with LUES inside
17 words contain LUES in the middle. Words that start with LUES are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LUES
Common questions about LUES
- Is LUES valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LUES, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LUES worth?
- LUES is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LUES mean?
- A serious infectious disease, especially syphilis, from the Latin word for pestilence.
- What letters can be added to LUES?
- LUES takes 6 hooks: 6 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of LUES:
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