RAMUS is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. RAMUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RAMUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RAMUS is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RAMUS
No single letter turns RAMUS into another word.
How RAMUS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RAMUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about RAMUS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 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 RAMUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A branch-like part of a structure, especially a projecting portion of a bone or nerve.
Anatomists use ramus for any part of the body that branches off a main trunk the way a limb branches off a tree, and the jawbone in particular has a well-known ramus, the roughly vertical portion at the back of the mandible where it turns up toward the ear. Nerves and blood vessels are described the same way, so a surgeon might refer to a ramus of a nerve splitting off to serve a smaller area of tissue. The word comes straight from Latin, where ramus simply means branch, and botanists borrow the identical term for a branch of a plant, keeping the same underlying image across two quite different sciences.
How RAMUS is used
A technical term from anatomy, and less often botany, used to name any branch-like part rather than a whole limb or stem.
- The dentist felt along the ramus of the jaw before taking the X-ray.
- A fracture of the pubic ramus kept her from walking for weeks.
- The surgeon traced the nerve to the point where a smaller ramus branched off.
- Each ramus of the plant's stem carried its own cluster of small flowers.
- The textbook diagram labelled the ramus separately from the rest of the bone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RAMUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RAMUS
The 5 tiles of RAMUS in a different order — 5 found.
Words ending in RAMUS
2 words end in RAMUS. Useful as a back hook: play RAMUS onto a word already on the board.
Words with RAMUS inside
4 words contain RAMUS in the middle. Words that start with RAMUS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RAMUS
Common questions about RAMUS
- Is RAMUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RAMUS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RAMUS worth?
- RAMUS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RAMUS mean?
- A branch-like part of a structure, especially a projecting portion of a bone or nerve.
- What letters can be added to RAMUS?
- No single letter can be added to RAMUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RAMUS:
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