TEMS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. TEMS 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TEMS?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TEMS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TEMS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TEMS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TEMS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What stands out about TEMS
- The same 4 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 TEMS mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicdialect
To sift grain or flour through a fine sieve called a temse.
A miller or baker who tems flour passes it through a temse, a fine hair or cloth sieve. This step removes husks or lumps and leaves only the finest powder behind.
How TEMS is used
Archaic and regional; found mainly in older texts about milling and baking, not in modern speech.
- The miller would tems the flour twice before it went into the sacks.
- She watched her grandmother tems the meal through an old cloth sieve.
- Bakers used to tems the flour by hand long before machines did the work.
- He learned to tems the coarse grain until only fine powder remained.
- The recipe told her to tems the flour before mixing in the yeast.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TEMS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TEMS
The 4 tiles of TEMS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TEMS
4 longer words begin with TEMS.
Words ending in TEMS
23 words end in TEMS. Useful as a back hook: play TEMS onto a word already on the board.
Words with TEMS inside
2 words contain TEMS in the middle. Words that start with TEMS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TEMS
Common questions about TEMS
- Is TEMS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TEMS is not in it.
- How many points is TEMS worth?
- TEMS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TEMS mean?
- To sift grain or flour through a fine sieve called a temse.
- What letters can be added to TEMS?
- TEMS takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TEMS:
Open TEMS in the Word Finder