PHARM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. PHARM 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 PHARM?
| 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 PHARM is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHARM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PHARM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PHARM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does PHARM mean in Scrabble?
noun
slang
A gathering where people bring and mix prescription drugs taken from home medicine cabinets.
A pharm, sometimes called a pharm party, gets its name as a play on pharmacy, and it centres on pooling pills of unknown or mixed origin rather than any single substance. Reports of the term rose alongside concern about teenage misuse of prescription medication.
How PHARM is used
Slang used in reporting on drug misuse rather than in everyday conversation.
- The school warned parents about a pharm held nearby.
- Pills at the pharm came from half a dozen different cabinets.
- News reports linked the pharm to a rise in overdoses.
- Nobody at the pharm knew exactly what each pill did.
- The article traced how word of the pharm spread online.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHARM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PHARM
Showing 24 of 49 words that begin with PHARM.
Words with PHARM inside
11 words contain PHARM in the middle. Words that start with PHARM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PHARM
Common questions about PHARM
- Is PHARM valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PHARM is not in it.
- How many points is PHARM worth?
- PHARM is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHARM mean?
- A gathering where people bring and mix prescription drugs taken from home medicine cabinets.
- What letters can be added to PHARM?
- PHARM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHARM:
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