Is GRIEVOUS a word?
GRIEVOUS is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends, has 8 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, GRIEVOUS is a valid word.
What does grievous mean?
adjective: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.
“a dangerous operation”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
GRIEVOUS: word details
- Pronunciation: GREE-vuhs (approx., 2 syllables)
- Length: 8 letters, a long word. It is one of 40,530 8-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 12 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 15 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside grievous
Words you can make from the letters of grievous.
Solve a whole rack, not just GRIEVOUS
GRIEVOUS is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does GRIEVOUS mean?
GRIEVOUS is a adjective. It means: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.
Is GRIEVOUS a valid word?
Yes, GRIEVOUS is a valid word. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.