IAMBUS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. IAMBUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept IAMBUS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IAMBUS is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IAMBUS
No single letter turns IAMBUS into another word.
How IAMBUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in IAMBUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does IAMBUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A metrical foot made of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
The iambus is the basic building block of English verse, since the rhythm of an iambus mirrors the rise and fall of ordinary speech. A line made of five such feet is called iambic pentameter, the pattern behind most of Shakespeare. The word comes from Greek, and the shorter form iamb is the one most teachers use today.
How IAMBUS is used
A term of prosody; the plural is iambuses or iambi, and the short form iamb is far more common.
- The word "above" is a single iambus.
- Each line of the sonnet is built from one iambus after another.
- A trochee reverses the order found in an iambus.
- He scanned the verse and marked every iambus with a slash.
- The poet broke the run of the iambus to stress the final word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IAMBUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with IAMBUS
1 longer words begin with IAMBUS.
Shorter words from the letters in IAMBUS
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Common questions about IAMBUS
- Is IAMBUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts IAMBUS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is IAMBUS worth?
- IAMBUS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IAMBUS mean?
- A metrical foot made of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
- What letters can be added to IAMBUS?
- No single letter can be added to IAMBUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of IAMBUS:
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