IMMEW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. IMMEW 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept IMMEW?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IMMEW is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IMMEW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
immewsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How IMMEW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in IMMEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does IMMEW mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To confine or shut up, as a hawk is confined in a mew.
Falconers kept hawks in a cage called a mew while the birds moulted, and to immew simply meant to put a hawk, or by extension anything else, into that kind of confinement. The word is built on the same root as mew and appears with the spellings emmew and enmew in older dictionaries, all naming the same action. None of the three ever became common outside descriptions of falconry and old figurative writing about imprisonment.
How IMMEW is used
Archaic and rare; met mainly in older writing about falconry or as a literary word for confinement.
- The falconer would immew an injured hawk until it healed.
- Older writers could immew a prisoner as easily as a bird.
- To immew the bird for the moult was standard practice.
- The manual explains how and when to immew a young hawk.
- He felt immewed by the small room, as if caged like a hawk.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IMMEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with IMMEW
3 longer words begin with IMMEW.
Shorter words from the letters in IMMEW
Common questions about IMMEW
- Is IMMEW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and IMMEW is not in it.
- How many points is IMMEW worth?
- IMMEW is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IMMEW mean?
- To confine or shut up, as a hawk is confined in a mew.
- What letters can be added to IMMEW?
- IMMEW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of IMMEW:
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