FLAMM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLAMM 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLAMM?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLAMM is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLAMM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
flammsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FLAMM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLAMM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does FLAMM mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An archaic word for a baked custard, and also a variant spelling of flam, a fanciful trick or pretence.
Flamm named a plain custard dish in older cookery books, sitting alongside flawn and flaun as regional spellings of the same idea. The same four letters also served as a variant of flam, the older noun for a made-up excuse or a showy deception, so flamm ended up covering two unrelated senses under one spelling. Neither use survives in ordinary modern cooking or conversation, and flamm now appears mainly in dictionaries of obsolete terms.
How FLAMM is used
Archaic; found only in old recipe books and word lists, not in modern speech.
- The old recipe called for a flamm baked in a shallow dish.
- She served a flamm sweetened with honey instead of sugar.
- The cook spelled it flamm where a later book has flawn.
- His flamm was really just a flam dressed up as an excuse.
- Few readers today would recognise flamm as a kind of custard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLAMM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FLAMM
13 longer words begin with FLAMM.
Words with FLAMM inside
Showing 24 of 25 words that contain FLAMM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FLAMM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FLAMM
Common questions about FLAMM
- Is FLAMM valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLAMM is not in it.
- How many points is FLAMM worth?
- FLAMM is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLAMM mean?
- An archaic word for a baked custard, and also a variant spelling of flam, a fanciful trick or pretence.
- What letters can be added to FLAMM?
- FLAMM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLAMM:
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