SCRAM is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SCRAM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCRAM?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCRAM is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCRAM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCRAM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCRAM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about SCRAM
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 SCRAM mean in Scrabble?
verb
informal
To clear off in a hurry, most often heard as a sharp one-word command.
Scram is used almost entirely as a blunt command, as in someone shouting scram at children hanging around a shop, and rarely appears in careful or formal writing. It carries a note of irritation or urgency that plain words like leave or go do not. In nuclear engineering the same word names an emergency shutdown of a reactor, a specialised sense that grew out of the everyday one.
How SCRAM is used
Informal and mainly spoken, often used as a sharp order rather than a description.
- The shopkeeper told the boys to scram before he called their parents.
- Scram, this is private property!
- The cat scrammed the moment the dog appeared.
- He scrammed out the back door before anyone noticed him.
- Tell your friends to scram, we're closing up.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCRAM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCRAM
The 5 tiles of SCRAM in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SCRAM
17 longer words begin with SCRAM.
Words with SCRAM inside
12 words contain SCRAM in the middle. Words that start with SCRAM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCRAM
Common questions about SCRAM
- Is SCRAM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCRAM, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCRAM worth?
- SCRAM is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCRAM mean?
- To clear off in a hurry, most often heard as a sharp one-word command.
- What letters can be added to SCRAM?
- SCRAM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCRAM:
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