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CROUP

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CROUP Means

  1. noun: a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
  2. noun: the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CROUP is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 O1 U1 P3.

Words Made From The Letters In CROUP

25 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.

4 letter words (5)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing CROUP

CROUP appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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