STRUMOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. STRUMOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STRUMOUS?
| 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 STRUMOUS is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STRUMOUS
No single letter turns STRUMOUS into another word.
How STRUMOUS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in STRUMOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so STRUMOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about STRUMOUS
- STRUMOUS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does STRUMOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medicalarchaic
Affected by or relating to a struma, an old term for a swelling of the neck gland or a scrofulous condition.
Doctors of earlier centuries used strumous for patients thought to suffer from glandular swellings. Today the word survives mostly in old medical books and in historical fiction about illness.
How STRUMOUS is used
You will meet strumous almost only in historical medical writing about glandular disease.
- The old physician described the boy as strumous and pale.
- A strumous swelling showed beneath the jaw of the patient.
- Victorian case notes often label a sickly child as strumous.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STRUMOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in STRUMOUS
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Common questions about STRUMOUS
- Is STRUMOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STRUMOUS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STRUMOUS worth?
- STRUMOUS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STRUMOUS mean?
- Affected by or relating to a struma, an old term for a swelling of the neck gland or a scrofulous condition.
- What letters can be added to STRUMOUS?
- No single letter can be added to STRUMOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of STRUMOUS:
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