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SCUD

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SCUD Means

  1. verb: run or move very quickly or hastily“She dashed into the yard”
  2. verb: run before a gale
  3. noun: the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCUD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 C3 U1 D2.

Anagrams of SCUD (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SCUD

4 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.

3 letter words (3)

2 letter words (1)

Longer Words Containing SCUD

SCUD 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.