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Is gruel a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gruel is a Scrabble US word. The word gruel is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is gruel a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gruel is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Is gruel a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gruel is a Words With Friends word. The word gruel is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

GLUER,GRUEL,LUGER,

4-letter words (8 found)

GLUE,GRUE,GULE,GURL,LUGE,LURE,RULE,URGE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ERG,GEL,GER,GUE,GUL,GUR,LEG,LEU,LUG,LUR,REG,RUE,RUG,ULE,URE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EL,ER,GU,RE,UG,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 5 letters words made out of gruel

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Definitions and meaning of gruel

gruel

Etymology 1

From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹuː(ə)l/
  • Rhymes: -ʊəl

Noun

gruel (countable and uncountable, plural gruels)

  1. A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
    Coordinate terms: congee, oatmeal, porridge
  2. punishment
  3. something that lacks substance
    thin gruel
  4. (slang, US, obsolete) sentimental poetry
  5. (slang, British) semen
Derived terms
  • give someone his gruel
  • get one's gruel (receive one's punishment; obsolete)
  • water gruel
Related terms
  • groat, groats
  • grit, grits
  • grout
Translations

Etymology 2

From the noun above.

Verb

gruel (third-person singular simple present gruels, present participle gruelling or grueling, simple past and past participle gruelled or grueled)

  1. (transitive) To exhaust, use up, disable
  2. (transitive) to punish (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (slang, British) ejaculate
Derived terms
  • gruelling

References

Anagrams

  • Luger, gluer, luger

Source: wiktionary.org