CHIRM is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CHIRM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHIRM?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHIRM is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHIRM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
chirmsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHIRM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHIRM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does CHIRM mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
A continuous, mingled chirping noise made by a flock of small birds.
Chirm describes the blended twittering of many birds calling at once, a sound thicker and busier than a single chirp. The word is old and now heard mainly in dialect speech or in writing that deliberately reaches for older vocabulary. Some dialect dictionaries also use chirm as a verb for the birds themselves making that noise. Naturalists occasionally revive the word because standard English has no single common term for the massed chatter of a flock.
How CHIRM is used
Archaic and dialectal; rare outside older texts, dialect glossaries and specialist nature writing.
- A chirm of starlings rose from the hedgerow at dusk.
- The orchard was full of the chirm of sparrows.
- Old shepherds spoke of the chirm that filled the barn each spring.
- The chirm of the rookery carried across the fields.
- She recorded the chirm of the roosting birds for her study.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHIRM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHIRM
3 longer words begin with CHIRM.
Shorter words from the letters in CHIRM
Common questions about CHIRM
- Is CHIRM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHIRM, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHIRM worth?
- CHIRM is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHIRM mean?
- A continuous, mingled chirping noise made by a flock of small birds.
- What letters can be added to CHIRM?
- CHIRM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHIRM:
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