Scrabble and Words with Friends

• VIRUS is a valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• VIRUS is a valid Words with Friends word worth 9 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• VIRUS is a 5 letter word containing the letters i, r, s, u, v.

Definitions

• virus

  noun (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

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• virus

  noun a harmful or corrupting agency
  bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread
  the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone

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• virus

  noun a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
  a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance

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• Lookup VIRUS using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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Words that sound like 'virus'

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