Stratagem is valid Scrabble Word

Is stratagem a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for STRATAGEM in dictionary:

NOUN:

a plan for deceiving an enemy or gaining an advantage; any artifice generally
a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end
skill in devising plans or schemes; cunning.
clever plan, trick
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
a maneuver in a game or conversation
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy; a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end

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How to use STRATAGEM in a sentence

I heard Ringan curse deeply, for we had not thought of this stratagem.
Hannibal had marched his legions from Herdonea to Tarentum, with the hope of getting possession of the citadel of that place, by force or stratagem.
The object of this stratagem was to cover and conceal his flight.
If we are foolish enough to shut the gate on the thought of death, by no stratagem can we shut the gate upon death itself.
Secretly I admired the stratagem, but my words on that occasion probably conveyed no idea of the approbation that lurked within me.
According to a local tradition, Capdenac was on the point of being captured by the English, when it was saved from this fate by a stratagem.
After everything was in readiness for the voyage, Morgan perfected a little stratagem by which he hoped to make his escape more safely.
And, O mighty-armed one, slay thy foes, having recourse to stratagem.
The stratagem seemed as successful as the other, but it was too soon to congratulate themselves.
The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.

And now occurred one of the most striking events in the history of the war, that of the defeat of an invading army by stratagem without sight of soldier or musket.
If the city could be won by stratagem, so much the better for himself and his men.
The next danger was from the rebels, who if they could either rush upon us, or take us by surprise or stratagem, would doubtless massacre us all on the spot.
When you sang that first song, he guessed your secret and told me his thought, and helped me to work the stratagem to lure you here.
I have made the present attempt to win you by stratagem, in the not very sanguine hope of success.
He tried the stratagem of right and left flank movements, but the space was too narrow.
A man who could not make tea without a stratagem, could hardly be a downright lover.
The English admiral practised here a successful stratagem upon the Spaniards.
When day dawned Lord Howard saw with the highest satisfaction the results of his stratagem.
But Napoleon wanted them, and employed stratagem to get them into his hands.
This stratagem being the suggestion of the brave Capt.
This stratagem, suggested by Captain Inman himself, was successful in its object.
He slew the tyrant Khumbaba in the forest of cedars, and by means of a stratagem tempted the satyr Ea-bant to leave the woods and become his counsellor and friend.
As it was now night, we took up our quarters for the night and posted our guards, unaware of a stratagem which had been planned for our destruction.
His troops were so much encouraged by this stratagem, that they followed him with great courage, believing themselves invincible under the protection of Huana Capac.
They practice, with the utmost adroitness, the stratagem of a false alarm on one side when the real assault is intended for the other.
The first attempt upon them was a customary Indian stratagem.
A pistol-ball in my brain would he preferable to what I saw awaiting me, should Bainrothe succeed in his stratagem, as I doubted not he would do, if determined on it.
He felt that his party was too weak for such an attempt, and resolved to accomplish by stratagem what he could not hope to compass by force.
SANDWICH, Lord, his first idea of a stratagem at sea, 132.
At length the city fell, vanquished, it is said, by stratagem rather than by force.

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