FEHME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. FEHME 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FEHME?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FEHME is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FEHME
No single letter turns FEHME into another word.
How FEHME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FEHME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 142,590.
What does FEHME mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A secret criminal court that operated in medieval Germany, especially Westphalia.
The fehme sat in secret, passing swift and often harsh judgement on those accused of serious crimes at a time when royal courts reached the countryside only weakly. Members met under oath and could summon a defendant, try the case, and carry out a sentence largely outside the ordinary machinery of law. The institution is also spelled vehm or vehme, and it survived into the early modern period before formal state courts finally replaced it. Historians studying medieval German law still use fehme for this particular kind of tribunal.
How FEHME is used
A historical term, met mainly in accounts of medieval German legal institutions.
- The fehme judged its cases in strict secrecy.
- A person summoned before the fehme rarely knew the accusers.
- Historians spell fehme also as vehm or vehme.
- The fehme operated most actively in medieval Westphalia.
- Royal courts eventually took over the work once done by the fehme.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FEHME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FEHME
Common questions about FEHME
- Is FEHME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FEHME is not in it.
- How many points is FEHME worth?
- FEHME is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FEHME mean?
- A secret criminal court that operated in medieval Germany, especially Westphalia.
- What letters can be added to FEHME?
- No single letter can be added to FEHME to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FEHME:
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