What KURU Means
- noun: a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
KURU 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 K5 U1 R1 U1.
Words Made From The Letters In KURU
1 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.
2 letter words (1)
Longer Words Containing KURU
KURU appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.