HOLME is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HOLME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOLME?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOLME is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOLME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
holmesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOLME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOLME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does HOLME mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
A small island in a river or lake, or a stretch of low, flat land beside a river or the sea, often flooded in wet weather.
Holme comes from an Old Norse word for a small island and survives today mainly in English place names, especially in areas once settled by Norse speakers, such as the north and east of England. Used as an ordinary noun, a holme refers to flat, often marshy ground close to a river or coastline, land that floods easily because it lies so low. Because the word is now mostly historical outside place names, it appears far more often as part of a town or village name than in an everyday sentence.
How HOLME is used
Dialect and historical term, now largely confined to place names in northern and eastern England.
- The village sits on a holme that floods almost every winter.
- Old maps mark the holme between the two river channels.
- Cattle once grazed on the low holme beside the stream.
- The name of the town still preserves the old word holme.
- A narrow holme separated the main river from its side channel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOLME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HOLME
The 5 tiles of HOLME in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HOLME
1 longer words begin with HOLME.
Shorter words from the letters in HOLME
Common questions about HOLME
- Is HOLME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOLME, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOLME worth?
- HOLME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOLME mean?
- A small island in a river or lake, or a stretch of low, flat land beside a river or the sea, often flooded in wet weather.
- What letters can be added to HOLME?
- HOLME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOLME:
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