CUMEC is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. CUMEC 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 11 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept CUMEC?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUMEC is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUMEC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cumecsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUMEC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CUMEC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What stands out about CUMEC
- CUMEC begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CUMEC mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A unit of flow equal to one cubic metre of fluid per second.
Hydrologists coined cumec so they would not have to write out a long compound unit every time they discuss discharge in a river or channel. Reports on floods and dam releases quote figures in cumecs because the alternative wording is clumsy to repeat throughout a document. Outside hydrology and civil engineering the word is essentially unknown.
How CUMEC is used
Technical; standard in hydrology and engineering, not everyday speech.
- The river was flowing at over two hundred cumecs after the storm.
- Engineers measured the release from the dam in cumecs.
- A flow of one cumec fills a large pool in minutes.
- The gauge recorded a peak of sixty cumecs overnight.
- They compared this flood to a previous one of similar cumecs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUMEC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CUMEC
The 5 tiles of CUMEC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CUMEC
1 longer words begin with CUMEC.
Shorter words from the letters in CUMEC
Common questions about CUMEC
- Is CUMEC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUMEC, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUMEC worth?
- CUMEC is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUMEC mean?
- A unit of flow equal to one cubic metre of fluid per second.
- What letters can be added to CUMEC?
- CUMEC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CUMEC:
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