REALM is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. REALM 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 REALM?
| 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 REALM is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for REALM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
realmsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How REALM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in REALM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about REALM
- 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 REALM mean in Scrabble?
noun
A kingdom or region ruled by a monarch, or more broadly a particular field, area or domain of activity or interest.
In its oldest sense a realm is the territory a king or queen rules over, complete with its laws, borders and subjects, and English writers still use the word this way when describing historical kingdoms or, more formally, modern states under a monarch. The same word stretched over time to cover any bounded area of activity that has its own rules or concerns, so a scientist can speak of the realm of physics and a novelist of the realm of imagination without any monarch in sight. This shift kept the core idea of a realm as a territory with its own internal order, whether that territory is a literal country or an abstract field of thought.
How REALM is used
Common in historical and formal writing for an actual kingdom, and equally common in everyday speech for an abstract field or area, as in the realm of possibility.
- The young prince would one day rule over his father's realm.
- Such an outcome falls outside the realm of possibility.
- The historian traced how the realm expanded under three successive kings.
- Within the realm of medicine, few discoveries changed as much as vaccination.
- Trade routes connected the realm to distant markets across the sea.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of REALM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of REALM
The 5 tiles of REALM in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with REALM
2 longer words begin with REALM.
Shorter words from the letters in REALM
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Common questions about REALM
- Is REALM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts REALM, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is REALM worth?
- REALM is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does REALM mean?
- A kingdom or region ruled by a monarch, or more broadly a particular field, area or domain of activity or interest.
- What letters can be added to REALM?
- REALM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of REALM:
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