AMOVE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. AMOVE 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AMOVE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AMOVE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AMOVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AMOVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AMOVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does AMOVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To stir up strong feeling in someone, or to remove someone from a position.
Amove carries two separate old senses that both survive in early legal and literary English: to move someone emotionally, close to the modern word move, and to remove or dismiss someone from an office. The second sense lived on longest in formal legal documents, where officers could be amoved from their posts long after the emotional sense had faded from ordinary speech.
How AMOVE is used
Archaic; the legal sense of removing from office outlasted the emotional one.
- The old speech was meant to amove even the coldest listener.
- The charter allowed the council to amove any officer for misconduct.
- Nothing in the letter seemed able to amove her at all.
- He was amoved from the post within a year of his appointment.
- Such stories could amove a whole congregation to tears.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AMOVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AMOVE
The 5 tiles of AMOVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with AMOVE
2 longer words begin with AMOVE.
Shorter words from the letters in AMOVE
Common questions about AMOVE
- Is AMOVE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AMOVE is not in it.
- How many points is AMOVE worth?
- AMOVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AMOVE mean?
- To stir up strong feeling in someone, or to remove someone from a position.
- What letters can be added to AMOVE?
- AMOVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AMOVE:
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