FLEME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLEME 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLEME?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLEME is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLEME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FLEME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLEME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 71,295.
What does FLEME mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsarchaic
To drive someone away or put them to flight; to banish.
Fleme goes back to an Old English verb meaning to put to flight, from the same root that gave English flee and flight. It once had ordinary currency across the whole of England before dying out everywhere except in Scots, where it survived into later centuries in ballads and in legal writing about outlaws. A fleme carried a sense of pursuit or expulsion rather than a simple dismissal, as though the person driven out had lost any right to return.
How FLEME is used
Rare; met in older Scots writing rather than in current speech.
- The chief threatened to fleme the whole clan from the glen.
- Old law papers speak of men flemed for a season and no longer.
- The ballad tells how the king flemed his own brother.
- To fleme a rival was thought harsher than to merely exile him.
- She used fleme where a modern writer would put banish.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLEME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FLEME
2 longer words begin with FLEME.
Words with FLEME inside
3 words contain FLEME in the middle. Words that start with FLEME are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FLEME
Common questions about FLEME
- Is FLEME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLEME is not in it.
- How many points is FLEME worth?
- FLEME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLEME mean?
- To drive someone away or put them to flight; to banish.
- What letters can be added to FLEME?
- FLEME takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLEME:
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