PLASM is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PLASM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLASM?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLASM is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLASM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLASM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PLASM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What stands out about PLASM
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PLASM mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
An older, uncommon short form of plasma, referring either to the fluid part of blood or to protoplasm, the living substance within a cell.
Scientists once used plasm as a general term for the basic living material inside cells, and the word survives today chiefly inside compounds such as germ plasm, meaning the hereditary material passed from parent to offspring. In a more medical sense, plasm can also stand for the clear, watery part of blood in which the blood cells float, though plasma is now the far more common spelling for that meaning. Because plasm has largely given way to its longer form in ordinary use, it now reads as old-fashioned outside a few set technical phrases.
How PLASM is used
Plasm is uncommon outside set technical phrases like germ plasm, where plasma is now the usual spelling.
- Early biologists spoke of the germ plasm passed from parent to child.
- The old textbook used plasm where a modern one would write plasma.
- Cell theory once described plasm as the basic living substance of every cell.
- He found the term plasm scattered through nineteenth-century biology texts.
- The lecture traced how plasm gradually gave way to the modern word plasma.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLASM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PLASM
The 5 tiles of PLASM in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with PLASM
Showing 24 of 52 words that begin with PLASM.
Words ending in PLASM
Showing 24 of 27 words that end in PLASM. Useful as a back hook: play PLASM onto a word already on the board.
Words with PLASM inside
Showing 24 of 74 words that contain PLASM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PLASM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PLASM
Common questions about PLASM
- Is PLASM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLASM, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLASM worth?
- PLASM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLASM mean?
- An older, uncommon short form of plasma, referring either to the fluid part of blood or to protoplasm, the living substance within a cell.
- What letters can be added to PLASM?
- PLASM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PLASM:
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