SPRUG is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SPRUG 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 SPRUG?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPRUG is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPRUG
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sprugsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPRUG scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPRUG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does SPRUG mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectScots
A house sparrow, in Scots and northern English dialect speech.
Sprug survives mainly in older Scottish and northern working-class speech, where a grandparent might still call any small brown bird a sprug without stopping to think of the standard name. Bird books and ornithologists never use the word; it belongs to the kitchen table and the back lane rather than to formal nature writing. Younger speakers in the same regions increasingly reach for the everyday name instead, so sprug is fading even where it was once common.
How SPRUG is used
Dialect; used chiefly in Scots and northern English speech for the house sparrow.
- A sprug hopped along the windowsill looking for crumbs.
- Old timers still called every small brown bird a sprug.
- The children fed the sprugs outside the bakery.
- A sprug's nest had formed under the roof tile.
- She could name the sprug by its short, chirping call.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPRUG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SPRUG
1 longer words begin with SPRUG.
Shorter words from the letters in SPRUG
Common questions about SPRUG
- Is SPRUG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPRUG, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPRUG worth?
- SPRUG is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPRUG mean?
- A house sparrow, in Scots and northern English dialect speech.
- What letters can be added to SPRUG?
- SPRUG takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPRUG:
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