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Is sprue a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sprue is a Scrabble US word. The word sprue is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is sprue a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sprue is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Is sprue a Words With Friends word?

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

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5-letter words (6 found)

PUERS,PURES,PURSE,SPRUE,SPUER,SUPER,

4-letter words (14 found)

PUER,PURE,PURS,REPS,RUES,RUSE,SPUE,SPUR,SUER,SUPE,SURE,URES,URPS,USER,

3-letter words (17 found)

ERS,PER,PES,PRE,PUR,PUS,REP,RES,RUE,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 45 words from sprue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of sprue

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sprue. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sprue.

Definitions and meaning of sprue

sprue

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɹuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Dutch spruw, sprouw. First described by William Hillary.

Noun

sprue (countable and uncountable, plural sprues)

  1. (medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
Synonyms
  • tropical sprue
Derived terms
  • celiac sprue
  • non-tropical sprue
Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

sprue (plural sprues)

  1. (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
  2. (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
Translations
See also
  • flash

Verb

sprue (third-person singular simple present sprues, present participle spruing or sprueing, simple past and past participle sprued)

  1. To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.

Anagrams

  • Pre-Us, Purse, Rupes, puers, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, rupes, super, super-

French

Noun

sprue f (plural sprues)

  1. sprue

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

  • spru

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspru.e/
  • Rhymes: -ue
  • Hyphenation: sprù‧e

Noun

sprue f (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) sprue

Derived terms

  • antisprue

Further reading

  • sprue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • pruse, ruspe, super, super-

Source: wiktionary.org