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GRINDS

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What GRINDS Means

GRINDS is a form of GRIND, which means:

  1. verb: press or grind with a crushing noise
  2. verb: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together“grate one's teeth in anger”
  3. noun: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
  4. noun: the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground“a coarse grind of coffee”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GRINDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 R1 I1 N1 D2 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In GRINDS

52 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 (8)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (6)

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