OLM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. OLM 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 5 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept OLM?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OLM is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OLM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OLM scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OLM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,527.
What does OLM mean in Scrabble?
noun
A blind cave salamander of southern Europe.
The olm lives in caves in the Balkans, is entirely white, and can go for years without eating. It was long taken for a baby dragon washed out by floods, which is a better first guess than most people manage about an unfamiliar animal.
How OLM is used
Countable: an olm, two olms.
- An olm can survive for years without food.
- The olm is blind and lives entirely in caves.
- Floods washed the olm out and people called it a dragon.
- The word olm came into English from German.
- Two olms in the same cave system and both over sixty.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OLM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OLM
The 3 tiles of OLM in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OLM
1 longer words begin with OLM.
Words ending in OLM
1 words end in OLM. Useful as a back hook: play OLM onto a word already on the board.
Words with OLM inside
Showing 24 of 54 words that contain OLM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OLM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OLM
Common questions about OLM
- Is OLM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OLM, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OLM worth?
- OLM is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OLM mean?
- A blind cave salamander of southern Europe.
- What letters can be added to OLM?
- OLM takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OLM:
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