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YUS

3 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What YUS Means

  1. noun: a Common Slavonic nasal vowel in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.“The names of the letters do not imply capitalization, as both little and big yus exist in majuscule and minuscule variants.”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

YUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Y4 U1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In YUS

2 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 (2)

Longer Words Containing YUS

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

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