KAM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. KAM 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 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept KAM?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KAM is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KAM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How KAM scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in KAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What does KAM mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Crooked, twisted, or contrary to what is straight or right.
Shakespeare used kam for anything bent out of its true shape or sense, most famously in the phrase clean kam, meaning entirely backwards or wrong-headed. The word has since dropped out of ordinary English and survives mainly in quotation from older plays.
How KAM is used
Archaic and literary; met chiefly in Shakespearean and other older English.
- The critic called the whole argument clean kam.
- His reasoning ran kam from start to finish.
- She thought the plan was hopelessly kam.
- The old phrase clean kam still turns up in scholarly notes.
- Everything about the scheme struck him as kam.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of KAM
The 3 tiles of KAM in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with KAM
Showing 24 of 48 words that begin with KAM.
Words ending in KAM
3 words end in KAM. Useful as a back hook: play KAM onto a word already on the board.
Words with KAM inside
Showing 24 of 32 words that contain KAM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with KAM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in KAM
Common questions about KAM
- Is KAM valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KAM is not in it.
- How many points is KAM worth?
- KAM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KAM mean?
- Crooked, twisted, or contrary to what is straight or right.
- What letters can be added to KAM?
- KAM takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of KAM:
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