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SLUR

4 letters, 4 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SLUR Means

  1. verb: play smoothly or legato“the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata”
  2. verb: speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur“your comments are slurring your co-workers”
  3. noun: (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
  4. noun: a blemish made by dirt“he had a smudge on his cheek”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SLUR is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 L1 U1 R1.

Anagrams of SLUR (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SLUR

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 (2)

2 letter words (2)

Longer Words Containing SLUR

SLUR appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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