FIRMAN is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FIRMAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FIRMAN?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIRMAN is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIRMAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
firmansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FIRMAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FIRMAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 102,199.
What does FIRMAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An official decree or grant of permission issued by a Muslim ruler, especially a sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
The word came into English through Persian and Turkish, and it is met most often in travel writing and histories of the Near East. A traveller or an archaeologist might need a firman before being allowed to dig at a site or pass through a province. Its force came entirely from the authority of the ruler who signed it.
How FIRMAN is used
Historical; used when writing about the Ottoman and related Islamic courts.
- The explorer waited weeks for a firman allowing him to excavate the mound.
- A firman from the sultan opened the gates of the fortress to the caravan.
- Without a firman, no foreign traveller could visit the shrine.
- The museum keeps a firman written on silk and sealed in red wax.
- She read about the firman in a memoir of the nineteenth-century East.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIRMAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FIRMAN
1 longer words begin with FIRMAN.
Shorter words from the letters in FIRMAN
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Common questions about FIRMAN
- Is FIRMAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIRMAN, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIRMAN worth?
- FIRMAN is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIRMAN mean?
- An official decree or grant of permission issued by a Muslim ruler, especially a sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- What letters can be added to FIRMAN?
- FIRMAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FIRMAN:
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