THARM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. THARM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THARM?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THARM is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THARM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tharmsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THARM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THARM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does THARM mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectarchaic
An old dialect word for the belly or intestines of an animal, especially the gut once prepared for use as cord, such as fiddle strings.
Tharm is an old English and Scots word for the gut or intestines, surviving today mainly in dialect speech and in older writing rather than in ordinary modern use. Beyond simply meaning the belly, tharm was closely tied to a practical craft: animal gut, carefully cleaned and dried, was twisted into cord used for musical instrument strings and other bindings, a material later given the everyday name catgut. The word appears in older poetry and dialect literature where a more common term such as gut or entrails would now be used instead. Its narrow survival owes much to its link with traditional string-making rather than to everyday talk about anatomy.
How THARM is used
Dialect and archaic; found chiefly in older regional writing rather than in current speech.
- The old rhyme spoke of a wolf with an empty tharm.
- Dried tharm was twisted into cord for the fiddle.
- The dialect poem described the beast's hollow tharm.
- Craftsmen once prepared tharm by hand before spinning it into string.
- The glossary explained tharm as an old word for the gut.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THARM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THARM
1 longer words begin with THARM.
Shorter words from the letters in THARM
Common questions about THARM
- Is THARM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THARM, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THARM worth?
- THARM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THARM mean?
- An old dialect word for the belly or intestines of an animal, especially the gut once prepared for use as cord, such as fiddle strings.
- What letters can be added to THARM?
- THARM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THARM:
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