GLOSSEME is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. GLOSSEME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GLOSSEME?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GLOSSEME is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GLOSSEME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
glossemesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GLOSSEME scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in GLOSSEME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GLOSSEME has to be built on the board across turns.
What does GLOSSEME mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning.
The word glosseme belongs to glossematics, a school of linguistics founded in Copenhagen. A glosseme can be a morpheme or an element of stress or word order, depending on the theory in use.
How GLOSSEME is used
Glosseme is a specialist term of structural linguistics.
- The lecturer defined a glosseme on the whiteboard.
- Each glosseme in the theory is an invariant unit.
- The article debated whether a glosseme can be a single sound.
- He wrote his dissertation on the glosseme.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GLOSSEME and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GLOSSEME
1 longer words begin with GLOSSEME.
Shorter words from the letters in GLOSSEME
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Common questions about GLOSSEME
- Is GLOSSEME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GLOSSEME, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GLOSSEME worth?
- GLOSSEME is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GLOSSEME mean?
- The smallest unit of language that carries meaning.
- What letters can be added to GLOSSEME?
- GLOSSEME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of GLOSSEME:
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