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Is spruce a Scrabble word?

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

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Is spruce a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word spruce is a Words With Friends word. The word spruce is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

SPRUCE,

5-letter words (16 found)

CREPS,CRUES,CRUSE,CURES,CURSE,ECRUS,PERCS,PUCER,PUCES,PUERS,PURES,PURSE,SPRUE,SPUER,SUCRE,SUPER,

4-letter words (32 found)

CEPS,CRUE,CRUS,CUES,CUPS,CURE,CURS,CUSP,ECRU,ECUS,PECS,PERC,PUCE,PUER,PURE,PURS,RECS,REPS,RUCS,RUES,RUSE,SCUP,SCUR,SPEC,SPUE,SPUR,SUER,SUPE,SURE,URES,URPS,USER,

3-letter words (27 found)

CEP,CRU,CUE,CUP,CUR,ECU,ERS,PEC,PER,PES,PRE,PUR,PUS,REC,REP,RES,RUC,RUE,SEC,SER,SUE,SUP,SUR,UPS,URE,URP,USE,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,ES,PE,RE,UP,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 84 words from spruce according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of spruce

spruce

Etymology

From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: spro͞os, (US) IPA(key): /spɹuːs/
  • Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

spruce (countable and uncountable, plural spruces or spruce)

  1. Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
  3. (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
  4. (obsolete) Prussian leather; pruce.

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See also

  • Spruce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Picea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Adjective

spruce (comparative sprucer, superlative sprucest)

  1. (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

Translations

Verb

spruce (third-person singular simple present spruces, present participle sprucing, simple past and past participle spruced)

  1. (usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
  3. To tease. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

  • spruce up
  • sprucen

References

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

Anagrams

  • cusper, recups

Source: wiktionary.org