HAM is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HAM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAM?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAM is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAM scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does HAM mean in Scrabble?
noun
Meat from the leg of a pig, cured and often smoked.
Ham and bacon come off the same animal and differ by the cut and the cure, so an argument about them is really an argument about butchery. The unrelated sense meaning an overacting performer is American and comes from a nineteenth-century song.
How HAM is used
Uncountable and countable. Also a verb — to ham it up.
- The ham had been hanging since November.
- A whole ham feeds a household for a fortnight.
- He hammed it up and the audience loved it.
- Ham and bacon differ by the cut and the cure.
- Two hams were sold before the shop opened properly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HAM
Showing 24 of 130 words that begin with HAM.
Words ending in HAM
17 words end in HAM. Useful as a back hook: play HAM onto a word already on the board.
Words with HAM inside
Showing 24 of 327 words that contain HAM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HAM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HAM
Common questions about HAM
- Is HAM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAM, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAM worth?
- HAM is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAM mean?
- Meat from the leg of a pig, cured and often smoked.
- What letters can be added to HAM?
- HAM takes 5 hooks: 3 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HAM:
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