SPIREM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. SPIREM 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 SPIREM?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPIREM is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPIREM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPIREM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPIREM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What stands out about SPIREM
- The same 6 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 SPIREM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The long coiled thread formed by chromatin in a cell nucleus at the start of cell division.
Biologists watching a cell prepare to divide see the chromatin gather into a tangled thread, and that thread is the spirem. It belongs to the early stage called prophase, before the thread breaks into separate chromosomes. The word is based on the Greek for a coil, which is also the root of spiral. Nowadays textbooks usually describe the stage itself and rarely use this older name.
How SPIREM is used
Technical and somewhat old-fashioned; spireme is the longer spelling.
- Under the microscope the spirem looked like a ball of fine wool.
- The student drew the spirem stage of mitosis.
- Early cytologists named the spirem long before genes were understood.
- As the spirem broke up, separate chromosomes appeared.
- Her notes describe a loose spirem filling the nucleus.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPIREM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPIREM
The 6 tiles of SPIREM in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SPIREM
3 longer words begin with SPIREM.
Shorter words from the letters in SPIREM
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Common questions about SPIREM
- Is SPIREM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPIREM, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPIREM worth?
- SPIREM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPIREM mean?
- The long coiled thread formed by chromatin in a cell nucleus at the start of cell division.
- What letters can be added to SPIREM?
- SPIREM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPIREM:
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