What HURTS Means
HURTS is a form of HURT, which means:
- verb: be the source of pain
- verb: give trouble or pain to“This exercise will hurt your back”
- noun: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- noun: psychological suffering“the death of his wife caused him great distress”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HURTS 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 H4 U1 R1 T1 S1.
Anagrams of HURTS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In HURTS
21 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 (11)
3 letter words (4)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing HURTS
HURTS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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