BREAM is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BREAM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BREAM?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BREAM is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BREAM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
breamsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BREAM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BREAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about BREAM
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 BREAM mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A deep-bodied, greenish-bronze freshwater fish native to Europe, or, more broadly, any of several related freshwater or marine fish resembling it, such as the sea bream.
Anglers across Europe rank the bream among the more common fish taken from slow, weedy rivers and lakes, prizing it less for eating than for the challenge of landing its broad, flattened body on light tackle. A related but quite different creature also shares the name at sea, since the sea bream, found in warmer coastal waters, belongs to an entirely separate family from the freshwater bream despite the shared word. English fishing writers sometimes distinguish the true, freshwater bream from these look-alikes by calling it simply the common bream, avoiding confusion with its saltwater namesakes. Old accounts of ship maintenance use bream in a completely unrelated sense too, meaning to clean a vessel's hull of weed and shells by scorching it, a coincidence of spelling rather than any real connection to the fish.
How BREAM is used
A zoological and angling term, common in writing about European freshwater fishing and, more loosely, in the names of several unrelated marine fish.
- He landed a large bream from the reeds near the old bridge.
- The lake was stocked with carp and bream for local anglers.
- A sea bream swam close to the rocky shoreline.
- She fried the fresh bream with butter and herbs.
- The fishing club's record bream weighed over four pounds.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BREAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BREAM
The 5 tiles of BREAM in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with BREAM
3 longer words begin with BREAM.
Words ending in BREAM
1 words end in BREAM. Useful as a back hook: play BREAM onto a word already on the board.
Words with BREAM inside
1 words contain BREAM in the middle. Words that start with BREAM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BREAM
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Common questions about BREAM
- Is BREAM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BREAM, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BREAM worth?
- BREAM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BREAM mean?
- A deep-bodied, greenish-bronze freshwater fish native to Europe, or, more broadly, any of several related freshwater or marine fish resembling it, such as the sea bream.
- What letters can be added to BREAM?
- BREAM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BREAM:
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