STRUM is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. STRUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STRUM?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STRUM is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STRUM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STRUM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STRUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does STRUM mean in Scrabble?
verb
To play a stringed instrument, especially a guitar, by sweeping the fingers or a pick lightly and rhythmically across the strings.
To strum a guitar means brushing across several strings at once in a steady rhythm, producing full chords rather than picking out single notes one at a time, which makes strumming the natural technique for accompanying singing around a campfire or on a porch. A beginner often learns a handful of basic chords and simple strumming patterns long before attempting more precise fingerpicking, since strumming forgives small timing slips more easily. The word can describe careless, unskilled playing as well as confident performance, so a novelist might describe a character idly strumming a few random chords out of boredom rather than actual music. As a noun, a strum names either a single sweep of the hand across the strings or, more loosely, the whole sound and rhythm of a piece played this way.
How STRUM is used
Common in everyday speech and music teaching, describing the basic rhythmic technique used on guitars, ukuleles and similar stringed instruments.
- He strummed a few chords while waiting for the others to arrive.
- She learned to strum a simple rhythm on her first guitar lesson.
- The busker strummed old folk songs for passing tourists.
- A gentle strum on the ukulele opened the song.
- He idly strummed the strings, not really playing anything at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STRUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STRUM
The 5 tiles of STRUM in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with STRUM
19 longer words begin with STRUM.
Words ending in STRUM
19 words end in STRUM. Useful as a back hook: play STRUM onto a word already on the board.
Words with STRUM inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain STRUM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with STRUM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in STRUM
Common questions about STRUM
- Is STRUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STRUM, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STRUM worth?
- STRUM is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STRUM mean?
- To play a stringed instrument, especially a guitar, by sweeping the fingers or a pick lightly and rhythmically across the strings.
- What letters can be added to STRUM?
- STRUM takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STRUM:
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