SEMEME is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SEMEME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SEMEME?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SEMEME is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEMEME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sememesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SEMEME scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SEMEME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,355 thousand.
What does SEMEME mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The unit of meaning carried by a morpheme, treated as the smallest piece of linguistic sense.
Linguists use sememe to talk about meaning separately from sound or spelling: the morpheme -s in cats and the morpheme -s in walks share a form, but each carries its own sememe. The term follows the pattern of phoneme and morpheme, where the ending -eme marks a basic unit of analysis. It appears in semantics and in discussion of how words are broken into parts.
How SEMEME is used
Specialist term of linguistics, rare outside academic writing.
- The textbook defines a sememe as the meaning of a morpheme.
- Each sememe in the word is traced to a separate root.
- The linguist argued that a sememe cannot be split further.
- A single sememe may be expressed by several different forms.
- The lecture compared a sememe with a phoneme.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEMEME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SEMEME
1 longer words begin with SEMEME.
Shorter words from the letters in SEMEME
Common questions about SEMEME
- Is SEMEME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEMEME, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEMEME worth?
- SEMEME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEMEME mean?
- The unit of meaning carried by a morpheme, treated as the smallest piece of linguistic sense.
- What letters can be added to SEMEME?
- SEMEME takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SEMEME:
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