CHORIAMB is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. CHORIAMB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHORIAMB?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHORIAMB is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHORIAMB
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHORIAMB scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CHORIAMB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CHORIAMB has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CHORIAMB
- All 8 letters of CHORIAMB are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHORIAMB mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A metrical unit of four syllables in which two short ones sit between two long ones.
In classical verse the pattern is long, short, short, long, which reads as a trochee joined to an iamb. A choriamb often turns up inside longer lyric lines, and readers of English poetry meet it mainly in analyses of ancient metre.
How CHORIAMB is used
Used in classical metre and in studies of poets who imitate Greek and Latin rhythms.
- The opening of the ode is built around a single choriamb.
- A choriamb has a short-short core framed by two long syllables.
- He marked each choriamb with a bracket above the line.
- The lecture explained why a choriamb feels like a quick turn in the rhythm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHORIAMB and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHORIAMB
6 longer words begin with CHORIAMB.
Shorter words from the letters in CHORIAMB
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Common questions about CHORIAMB
- Is CHORIAMB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHORIAMB, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHORIAMB worth?
- CHORIAMB is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHORIAMB mean?
- A metrical unit of four syllables in which two short ones sit between two long ones.
- What letters can be added to CHORIAMB?
- CHORIAMB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CHORIAMB:
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