STYME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. STYME is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept STYME?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STYME is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STYME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STYME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STYME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does STYME mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scots
To peer or squint, especially while straining to make something out in weak or failing light.
Styme describes the way someone narrows their eyes and screws up the face to make sense of something dim, rather than simply glancing at it. Scots writers use the word for a squint aimed at a distant or half-hidden object, and dialect dictionaries record stime as the very same word in a slightly different spelling. The two spellings are pronounced alike and never treated as separate words. Standard English has no single verb covering quite the same action, tending instead to describe the effort in a whole phrase.
How STYME is used
Scots dialect verb; met in older Scots writing rather than in everyday standard English.
- The word styme means to peer, especially through weak or failing light.
- She had to styme hard before she could make out the sign in the fog.
- Old Scots writers use styme where a modern writer would simply say peer.
- They styme at the horizon, hoping to catch sight of the returning boat.
- He stymes at every letter before he can read it these days.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STYME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with STYME
2 longer words begin with STYME.
Shorter words from the letters in STYME
Common questions about STYME
- Is STYME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and STYME is not in it.
- How many points is STYME worth?
- STYME is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STYME mean?
- To peer or squint, especially while straining to make something out in weak or failing light.
- What letters can be added to STYME?
- STYME takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STYME:
Open STYME in the Word Finder