STEMMY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. STEMMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STEMMY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STEMMY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STEMMY
No single letter turns STEMMY into another word.
How STEMMY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in STEMMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,070 thousand.
What stands out about STEMMY
- STEMMY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does STEMMY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Full of stems, or made up mostly of stems.
Stemmy is a trade word for goods that contain too much stem and too little of the useful part. Dealers use it of tea, dried fruit and herbs when twigs and stalks are mixed in with the leaves or berries. It is also used of a young, raw wine with a bitter edge.
How STEMMY is used
Specialist; mostly met in descriptions of tea, herbs, fruit and wine.
- The dealer rejected the stemmy tea as poor quality.
- A stemmy bunch of dried herbs hung by the door.
- The wine tasted young and stemmy, with a bitter finish.
- Pick out the stemmy bits before you grind the spice.
- Cheap currants are often stemmy and need sorting.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STEMMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in STEMMY
Common questions about STEMMY
- Is STEMMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STEMMY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STEMMY worth?
- STEMMY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STEMMY mean?
- Full of stems, or made up mostly of stems.
- What letters can be added to STEMMY?
- No single letter can be added to STEMMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of STEMMY:
Open STEMMY in the Word Finder