ABRAM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABRAM is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABRAM?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABRAM is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABRAM
No single letter turns ABRAM into another word.
How ABRAM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABRAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does ABRAM mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Auburn, or reddish-brown in colour.
Abram is an archaic English adjective describing a warm shade of brown hair or a beard, and it appears just once in this sense in Shakespeare. Some editors treat abram as a variant spelling of auburn that arose from confusion in early printed texts, rather than as a word with a separate origin of its own. Despite the resemblance, abram has no connection to the biblical name Abram, which comes from an unrelated Hebrew source. The word now survives only in glossaries of Shakespearean vocabulary and dictionaries built for word games.
How ABRAM is used
Archaic and literary; met almost exclusively in editions and discussions of Shakespeare's plays.
- The stage direction called for an abram wig to match the character's beard.
- Abram appears just once in Shakespeare, describing a shade of brown hair.
- Editors debate whether abram is simply a misprint for auburn.
- A glossary of archaic colour words lists abram alongside tawny and sorrel.
- Modern readers rarely meet abram outside footnotes to old plays.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABRAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ABRAM
Common questions about ABRAM
- Is ABRAM valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABRAM is not in it.
- How many points is ABRAM worth?
- ABRAM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABRAM mean?
- Auburn, or reddish-brown in colour.
- What letters can be added to ABRAM?
- No single letter can be added to ABRAM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABRAM:
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