ENGRAM is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ENGRAM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENGRAM?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENGRAM is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENGRAM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
engramsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENGRAM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENGRAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 51,100.
What stands out about ENGRAM
- The same 6 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 ENGRAM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A lasting physical trace that an experience is thought to leave in the brain, forming the basis of a memory.
The term engram was coined in the early twentieth century by the German biologist Richard Semon, who wanted a name for the change that a stimulus leaves behind in living tissue. Neuroscientists still use it when they talk about the group of cells that holds a particular memory, even though nobody has ever pinned one down as a single object. In everyday talk the word is rare, and it mostly turns up in articles about learning and recall.
How ENGRAM is used
Used in neuroscience and psychology, and in popular science writing about memory.
- Researchers marked the cells they believed held the engram for the maze.
- A single engram may be spread across many connected neurons.
- The experiment tried to switch an old engram back on with light.
- Memory loss was blamed on damage to the engram rather than to recall itself.
- Semon introduced the word engram to name the trace a stimulus leaves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENGRAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ENGRAM
The 6 tiles of ENGRAM in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ENGRAM
7 longer words begin with ENGRAM.
Shorter words from the letters in ENGRAM
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Common questions about ENGRAM
- Is ENGRAM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENGRAM, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENGRAM worth?
- ENGRAM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENGRAM mean?
- A lasting physical trace that an experience is thought to leave in the brain, forming the basis of a memory.
- What letters can be added to ENGRAM?
- ENGRAM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENGRAM:
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