SAMEK is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SAMEK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAMEK?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAMEK is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAMEK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SAMEK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SAMEK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about SAMEK
- 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 SAMEK mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, transliterated as s and written as a single closed loop.
Samek is one of the twenty-two consonants of the Hebrew alphabet and sits between nun and ayin in the traditional order. Unlike several Hebrew letters, samek has only one standard form and does not change shape when it appears at the end of a word. Its numerical value in the traditional Hebrew counting system is sixty, since Hebrew letters historically doubled as numerals. The name is also written samekh in many transliteration schemes, though samek is an older and shorter spelling used in English reference works and word lists.
How SAMEK is used
A technical term used mainly in discussions of the Hebrew alphabet, biblical Hebrew and Jewish liturgy rather than in everyday speech.
- The scribe carefully formed each samek in the scroll.
- Samek is the fifteenth letter students learn in the Hebrew alphabet.
- In gematria, samek carries the numerical value of sixty.
- The word ends with a samek rather than a final letter form.
- She compared the shape of samek to that of the Greek letter xi.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAMEK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAMEK
The 5 tiles of SAMEK in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SAMEK
3 longer words begin with SAMEK.
Shorter words from the letters in SAMEK
Showing 40 of 45. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about SAMEK
- Is SAMEK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAMEK, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAMEK worth?
- SAMEK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAMEK mean?
- The fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, transliterated as s and written as a single closed loop.
- What letters can be added to SAMEK?
- SAMEK takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SAMEK:
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