TEGMEN is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. TEGMEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TEGMEN?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TEGMEN is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TEGMEN
No single letter turns TEGMEN into another word.
How TEGMEN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TEGMEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 83,618.
What does TEGMEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A covering layer, such as the inner coat of a seed or the leathery forewing of some insects.
Biologists use tegmen for a protective cover, and the exact thing named depends on the field. In botany it is the thin inner skin of a seed, lying under the tougher outer coat. In insects such as cockroaches and grasshoppers it is the hardened forewing that shelters the delicate hindwing. The plural is tegmina, and the word is borrowed from Latin for a cover.
How TEGMEN is used
A specialist term of botany, entomology and anatomy.
- Under the hard outer coat the tegmen protects the seed embryo.
- The grasshopper folded its wings neatly beneath each tegmen.
- A damaged tegmen left the insect unable to fly well.
- The botanist peeled away the shell to show the thin tegmen.
- Each tegmen of the cockroach is stiff and leathery.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TEGMEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TEGMEN
3 longer words begin with TEGMEN.
Shorter words from the letters in TEGMEN
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Common questions about TEGMEN
- Is TEGMEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TEGMEN, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TEGMEN worth?
- TEGMEN is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TEGMEN mean?
- A covering layer, such as the inner coat of a seed or the leathery forewing of some insects.
- What letters can be added to TEGMEN?
- No single letter can be added to TEGMEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TEGMEN:
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