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CURIES

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CURIES Means

CURIES is a form of CURIE, which means:

  1. noun: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CURIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 U1 R1 I1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of CURIES (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CURIES

78 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.

5 letter words (17)

4 letter words (30)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (7)

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