JAMES is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. JAMES 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept JAMES?
| 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 JAMES is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JAMES
No single letter turns JAMES into another word.
How JAMES scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JAMES, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does JAMES mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishslang
A short crowbar, especially one used by a burglar to force open a door or window; a jemmy.
In this sense a james is simply another name for a jemmy, the short metal bar burglars use to lever open windows, doors or drawers. The word belongs to old criminal slang rather than to standard tool vocabulary, where jemmy or crowbar are far more usual today. It survives mainly in older accounts of burglary and thieves' cant rather than in modern everyday speech.
How JAMES is used
Rare and dated slang, chiefly British, now largely replaced by jemmy in ordinary use.
- The burglar forced the window with a short james.
- Police found a james and a set of skeleton keys in his coat.
- He kept a james hidden under the seat of the cart.
- The old thief could open most locks with nothing but a james.
- A worn james lay abandoned beside the broken shutter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JAMES and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JAMES
1 longer words begin with JAMES.
Shorter words from the letters in JAMES
Common questions about JAMES
- Is JAMES valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and JAMES is not in it.
- How many points is JAMES worth?
- JAMES is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JAMES mean?
- A short crowbar, especially one used by a burglar to force open a door or window; a jemmy.
- What letters can be added to JAMES?
- No single letter can be added to JAMES to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JAMES:
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