HIEMAL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. HIEMAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HIEMAL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HIEMAL is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HIEMAL
No single letter turns HIEMAL into another word.
How HIEMAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in HIEMAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does HIEMAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Belonging to winter or typical of the coldest season of the year.
Hiemal comes from the Latin word for winter and is a learned, slightly bookish cousin of wintry. It turns up in poetry, in older natural history and in descriptions of climate or the habits of animals. Where hiemal simply names the season, wintry usually suggests the actual feel of cold weather.
How HIEMAL is used
Literary and learned; rare in everyday speech, where winter or wintry is normal.
- The hiemal sun barely cleared the roofs before it sank again.
- Botanists once sorted flowering plants into vernal, aestival, autumnal and hiemal kinds.
- A hiemal silence lay over the frozen marsh.
- The poem turns from hiemal gloom to the first signs of spring.
- Her diary records the hiemal habits of the dormouse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HIEMAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HIEMAL
The 6 tiles of HIEMAL in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in HIEMAL
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Common questions about HIEMAL
- Is HIEMAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HIEMAL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HIEMAL worth?
- HIEMAL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HIEMAL mean?
- Belonging to winter or typical of the coldest season of the year.
- What letters can be added to HIEMAL?
- No single letter can be added to HIEMAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of HIEMAL:
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