ABRIM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABRIM 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 ABRIM?
| 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 ABRIM 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 ABRIM
No single letter turns ABRIM into another word.
How ABRIM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABRIM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What stands out about ABRIM
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ABRIM mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryarchaic
Filled right up to the edge; brimming.
Abrim combines the prefix a- with brim to describe a container, a mind, or a place that has reached its very rim, holding as much as it possibly can. It functions as a predicate adjective, standing after the noun it describes rather than before it, as in eyes abrim with tears. The word belongs to a small family of a- plus noun adjectives such as ablaze and afloat, all formed the same way in older English. It survives mainly in literary and poetic writing rather than in ordinary speech.
How ABRIM is used
Literary and somewhat archaic; placed after the noun it modifies, as in a cup abrim.
- Her eyes stood abrim with tears she refused to let fall.
- The harbour was left abrim after the storm surge passed.
- A cup abrim with wine sat untouched on the table.
- Poets favour abrim over the plainer phrase full to the brim.
- The basket arrived abrim with fruit from the orchard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABRIM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABRIM
The 5 tiles of ABRIM in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in ABRIM
Common questions about ABRIM
- Is ABRIM valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABRIM is not in it.
- How many points is ABRIM worth?
- ABRIM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABRIM mean?
- Filled right up to the edge; brimming.
- What letters can be added to ABRIM?
- No single letter can be added to ABRIM to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABRIM:
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