Rueful is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 50 anagrams from letters in rueful (eflruu).
First recorded in 1175-1225, rueful is from the Middle English word reowful. See rue1, -ful
Captain Elisha, with a rueful smile, pointed to the floral centerpiece.
"You were right," affirmed Kirkwood, with a rueful and crooked smile.
rueful laughter from both men turned to thoughtfulness in Stittsworth.
A discussion of a London cheese shop sends her into paroxysms of rueful joy.
“You can pick which lines can come out,” Spitzer said with a rueful smile.
You will do the anathema--rueful rather than enraged--from the tent opening.
But most of them must be delivered from on the peninsula, where Bob is standing, casting a rueful eye on the whole show.
Duncan drew a rueful face, contemplating the place where she had been.
You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant.
"Naturally, and with reason," was the answer, delivered with a rueful smile.