ILLUME is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ILLUME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ILLUME?
| 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 ILLUME is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ILLUME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ILLUME scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ILLUME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does ILLUME mean in Scrabble?
verb
literarypoeticarchaic
To light up, or to fill with light.
Illume is a shortened, poetic cousin of illuminate, kept mainly for the rhythm it gives a line of verse rather than for any difference in meaning. Poets have used it for centuries to describe stars, dawn, or a face lit from within, favouring its lighter sound over the fuller illuminate. Outside poetry and deliberately old-fashioned prose the word is rarely met, and a modern writer describing an ordinary lit room would reach for illuminate or simply light instead.
How ILLUME is used
Literary and archaic; almost always found in poetry or consciously old-fashioned writing.
- Dawn began to illume the eastern hills.
- A single candle was left to illume the chamber.
- The poet asked what star might illume so dark a night.
- Moonlight seemed to illume the water from beneath.
- Her smile appeared to illume the whole room.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ILLUME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ILLUME
2 longer words begin with ILLUME.
Shorter words from the letters in ILLUME
Common questions about ILLUME
- Is ILLUME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ILLUME, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ILLUME worth?
- ILLUME is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ILLUME mean?
- To light up, or to fill with light.
- What letters can be added to ILLUME?
- ILLUME takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ILLUME:
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