GAMME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. GAMME 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 GAMME?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GAMME is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GAMME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GAMME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GAMME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 232,369.
What does GAMME mean in Scrabble?
noun
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A musical scale, especially a full scale of notes used in music theory or singing practice.
Gamme comes from the same root as the English word gamut, both tracing back to a medieval system for naming musical notes. Where gamut broadened in English to mean an entire range of anything, gamme stayed closer to its original, narrower sense of an ordered scale of musical pitches. The word is uncommon in ordinary English writing and turns up mainly in older musical treatises, word-game lists, and discussions of the history of musical notation.
How GAMME is used
Rare and largely historical term for a musical scale; seen mainly in older texts on music theory rather than in everyday or modern musical writing.
- The old treatise explained the gamme note by note, from the lowest pitch to the highest.
- Students practised the gamme daily to train their ear for pitch.
- The choirmaster sang through the gamme before rehearsal began.
- Medieval musicians organised their teaching around a fixed gamme of notes.
- Few modern textbooks still use the word gamme instead of scale.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GAMME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GAMME
The 5 tiles of GAMME in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GAMME
6 longer words begin with GAMME.
Shorter words from the letters in GAMME
Common questions about GAMME
- Is GAMME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GAMME is not in it.
- How many points is GAMME worth?
- GAMME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GAMME mean?
- A musical scale, especially a full scale of notes used in music theory or singing practice.
- What letters can be added to GAMME?
- GAMME takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GAMME:
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