LEME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. LEME 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LEME?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEME is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEME scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in LEME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,427.
What does LEME mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
An archaic word for a gleam or ray of light, closely related to leam.
Leme is an older spelling used for the same idea as leam: a brief gleam of light, such as the glow of a fire or a flash in the sky. It appears in medieval and early modern English texts and survives now mainly as a historical curiosity rather than as living vocabulary.
How LEME is used
Archaic; found in older texts, not in current speech.
- The manuscript describes a leme breaking through the clouds at dawn.
- A faint leme from the candle was all that lit the room.
- Old poets often wrote of the leme of the moon on water.
- He copied the word leme from a fifteenth-century text.
- The leme of the forge could be seen from the road at night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LEME
4 longer words begin with LEME.
Words ending in LEME
2 words end in LEME. Useful as a back hook: play LEME onto a word already on the board.
Words with LEME inside
Showing 24 of 269 words that contain LEME somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LEME are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LEME
Common questions about LEME
- Is LEME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LEME is not in it.
- How many points is LEME worth?
- LEME is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEME mean?
- An archaic word for a gleam or ray of light, closely related to leam.
- What letters can be added to LEME?
- LEME takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of LEME:
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