FERMI is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. FERMI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FERMI?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FERMI is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FERMI
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fermisChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FERMI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FERMI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does FERMI mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A unit of length equal to one femtometre, or one quadrillionth of a metre, used mainly in nuclear and particle physics to measure distances inside the atomic nucleus.
Physicists named the fermi after Enrico Fermi, whose work on nuclear reactions made such an extremely small unit necessary for describing the size of protons, neutrons, and atomic nuclei. Although the femtometre is now the more standard term in the International System of Units, fermi remains common in older nuclear physics literature and in casual laboratory speech. A single fermi is roughly the diameter of a proton, far smaller than anything visible even with powerful microscopes.
How FERMI is used
A specialist unit used almost exclusively in nuclear and particle physics.
- The nucleus measured only a few fermi across.
- Physicists express nuclear radii in units of the fermi.
- One fermi equals one quadrillionth of a metre.
- The paper reported a proton radius of about one fermi.
- Textbooks sometimes use fermi instead of femtometre for nuclear distances.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FERMI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FERMI
6 longer words begin with FERMI.
Shorter words from the letters in FERMI
Common questions about FERMI
- Is FERMI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FERMI, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FERMI worth?
- FERMI is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FERMI mean?
- A unit of length equal to one femtometre, or one quadrillionth of a metre, used mainly in nuclear and particle physics to measure distances inside the atomic nucleus.
- What letters can be added to FERMI?
- FERMI takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FERMI:
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