HIEMS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. HIEMS 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 HIEMS?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HIEMS is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HIEMS
No single letter turns HIEMS into another word.
How HIEMS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HIEMS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does HIEMS mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterarypoetic
Winter, in old or poetic English.
Hiems began as an ordinary Latin noun and travelled into English whole, without ever being translated, mostly through poets and playwrights reaching for an antique flavour. Shakespeare gave the name Hiems to a singing character at the close of a song in Love's Labour's Lost, and later writers borrowed hiems for that same old-fashioned effect. The word never entered everyday speech; it stayed a literary and poetic borrowing rather than becoming an ordinary noun.
How HIEMS is used
Rare; met in verse and old drama rather than in ordinary prose.
- The song ends with Hiems, the voice of winter itself.
- A poet reaching for an old word might write hiems instead of winter.
- Hiems never replaced the everyday word winter in speech.
- The Latin hiems gives English words like hibernate their root.
- Only the most old-fashioned verse still uses hiems.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HIEMS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HIEMS
Common questions about HIEMS
- Is HIEMS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HIEMS is not in it.
- How many points is HIEMS worth?
- HIEMS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HIEMS mean?
- Winter, in old or poetic English.
- What letters can be added to HIEMS?
- No single letter can be added to HIEMS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HIEMS:
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