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THROE

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What THROE Means

  1. noun: severe spasm of pain“the throes of dying”
  2. noun: hard or painful trouble or struggle“a country in the throes of economic collapse”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

THROE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 H4 R1 O1 E1.

Anagrams of THROE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In THROE

34 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 (6)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (11)

Longer Words Containing THROE

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

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