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ACCRUES

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ACCRUES Means

ACCRUES is a form of ACCRUE, which means:

  1. verb: grow by addition“The interest accrues”
  2. verb: come into the possession of“The house accrued to the oldest son”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ACCRUES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 C3 C3 R1 U1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of ACCRUES (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In ACCRUES

112 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (9)

5 letter words (24)

4 letter words (39)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (9)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.