RHEME is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. RHEME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RHEME?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RHEME is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHEME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rhemesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RHEME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RHEME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 47,530.
What does RHEME mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
In linguistics, the part of a sentence that provides new information about the subject already established, as distinct from the theme, which names what the sentence is about.
Rheme comes from a branch of linguistics called functional sentence perspective, which studies how a sentence is organised to move from familiar to new information. In a sentence such as the cat sat on the mat, the cat may serve as the theme, the starting point already known to the listener, while sat on the mat is the rheme, the new information being added about it. Linguists use the theme and rheme pair to analyse how word order and emphasis guide a listener through a sentence, especially in languages where word order is more flexible than in English. The term rheme itself comes from a Greek word meaning something said or spoken.
How RHEME is used
Technical; used almost exclusively in academic linguistics when discussing sentence structure and information flow.
- The linguist marked the theme and the rheme of each sentence in the text.
- In this example, the rheme carries all the new information the speaker wants to convey.
- Word order often signals which part of a sentence functions as the rheme.
- Her thesis examined how rheme placement differs across the two languages.
- The rheme typically follows the theme in an ordinary English sentence.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHEME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RHEME
The 5 tiles of RHEME in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RHEME
1 longer words begin with RHEME.
Shorter words from the letters in RHEME
Common questions about RHEME
- Is RHEME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RHEME, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RHEME worth?
- RHEME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHEME mean?
- In linguistics, the part of a sentence that provides new information about the subject already established, as distinct from the theme, which names what the sentence is about.
- What letters can be added to RHEME?
- RHEME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RHEME:
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