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Yes. The word accrue is a Scrabble US word. The word accrue is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word accrue is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

ACCRUE,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACER,ACRE,CARE,CECA,CRUE,CURE,ECRU,RACE,UREA,

3-letter words (16 found)

ACE,ARC,ARE,AUE,CAR,CRU,CUE,CUR,EAR,EAU,ECU,ERA,REC,RUC,RUE,URE,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 33 words from accrue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of accrue

accrue

Etymology

First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɹuː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkɹu/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Verb

accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)

  1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise
  2. (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
    • 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
      Interest accrues to principal.
    • 1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface
      The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
  3. (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  4. (transitive) To accumulate.
    • 1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew:
      We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,
      In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,
      Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,
      Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
  5. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Synonyms

  • (increase): rise; see also Thesaurus:increase
  • (accumulate): add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "accounting"): amortize, defer, prepay

Derived terms

Related terms

  • accretion
  • accresce
  • accrete
  • crescent

Translations

Noun

accrue (plural accrues)

  1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

Translations

Further reading

  • “accrue”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “accrue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.kʁy/

Noun

accrue f (plural accrues)

  1. dry land created by draining

Participle

accrue f sg

  1. feminine singular of accru

Further reading

  • “accrue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org