GEMMA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GEMMA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GEMMA?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GEMMA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GEMMA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How GEMMA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GEMMA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 232,369.
What does GEMMA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyzoology
A small bud-like structure that detaches from a parent plant or simple organism and grows into a new individual, without any sexual step involved.
A gemma is the basic unit of asexual reproduction in mosses and liverworts, where thousands of tiny gemmae form inside cup-shaped structures on the plant's surface and are splashed out by falling raindrops. The same word describes comparable budding cells in a handful of simple animals and fungi, so botanists and zoologists both use gemma for a structure that grows into a full copy of its parent without fertilization.
How GEMMA is used
A specialist term from botany and zoology, encountered mainly in descriptions of moss, liverwort, and sponge reproduction.
- Rain splashed the gemma cups and scattered dozens of gemmae onto the soil.
- Under the microscope, each gemma looked like a tiny green disc.
- A single gemma can grow into a whole new liverwort within weeks.
- The textbook diagram labeled the gemma cup on the liverwort's surface.
- Sponges of this species reproduce partly by releasing a gemma into the water.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GEMMA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of GEMMA
The 5 tiles of GEMMA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with GEMMA
10 longer words begin with GEMMA.
Shorter words from the letters in GEMMA
Common questions about GEMMA
- Is GEMMA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GEMMA, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GEMMA worth?
- GEMMA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GEMMA mean?
- A small bud-like structure that detaches from a parent plant or simple organism and grows into a new individual, without any sexual step involved.
- What letters can be added to GEMMA?
- GEMMA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GEMMA:
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