RHEUM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. RHEUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RHEUM?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RHEUM is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RHEUM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RHEUM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RHEUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does RHEUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A watery fluid that gathers in and around the eyes or nose, especially during sleep or illness.
Rheum names the thin, watery discharge that collects around the eyes overnight or runs from the nose during a cold, a substance more often just called crust or mucus in plain modern speech. The word is now mostly literary or old-fashioned, surviving less in ordinary conversation than in its descendants: rheumy, describing eyes that look watery or bleary, and rheumatism, the joint condition once believed to be caused by an excess of this same fluid moving through the body. Older medical theory treated rheum as one of the harmful fluids moving through the body, an idea long since abandoned even though the word for it lingers on. Today rheum appears mainly in older texts or in deliberately formal or poetic description.
How RHEUM is used
Literary and somewhat old-fashioned; rarely used in ordinary modern speech outside its relatives rheumy and rheumatism.
- Rheum had gathered in the corners of the old man's eyes overnight.
- The poem described tears and rheum mingling on the widow's face.
- A trace of rheum still clung to the child's lashes after the fever broke.
- Doctors once blamed rheum for a whole range of aches and pains.
- His eyes, clouded with rheum, struggled to focus on the page.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RHEUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RHEUM
Showing 24 of 29 words that begin with RHEUM.
Words ending in RHEUM
1 words end in RHEUM. Useful as a back hook: play RHEUM onto a word already on the board.
Words with RHEUM inside
5 words contain RHEUM in the middle. Words that start with RHEUM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RHEUM
Common questions about RHEUM
- Is RHEUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RHEUM, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RHEUM worth?
- RHEUM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RHEUM mean?
- A watery fluid that gathers in and around the eyes or nose, especially during sleep or illness.
- What letters can be added to RHEUM?
- RHEUM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RHEUM:
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