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Is grue a Scrabble word?

Yes, grue is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of grue?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.Examples: "“It is seenteen hundred linen,” said the pedlar, giving a tweak to one of the shirts, in that knowing manner with which matrons and judges ascertain the texture of the loom ; “it’s seenteen hundred linen, and as strong as an it were dowlas. Nevertheless, mother, your bidding is to be done ; and I would have done Mr. Mordaunt’s bidding too,” he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, “if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself.”"archaicintransitive

noun (English)

1. (Scotland) A shiver, a shudder.Examples: "Upon all others the sight of Alison, were it but for a moment, cast a cold grue, not to be remembered without terror."; "A Grue of Ice"; "A cold grue went through me—I was unable to touch such a hand."Scotland

adj (English)

1. (philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.Examples: "The grue property is defined as: x is grue if and only if x is green and is observed before the year 2000, or x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000."; "The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue, since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue."not-comparable

2. (linguistics) Of a single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that lacked a distinction between green and blue.not-comparable

noun (English)

1. (slang) Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.slanguncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "grue"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "grue"?

Scrabble
5 points
G2
R1
U1
E1
Words With Friends
7 points
G3
R1
U2
E1

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