THERM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. THERM 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 THERM?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THERM is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THERM
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How THERM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in THERM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does THERM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A unit of heat energy equal to one hundred thousand British thermal units, formerly used as the standard measure for gas supplied to homes in Britain.
The therm was for many years the official unit used to measure and bill natural gas consumption in Britain, before the country switched to kilowatt-hours for gas metering. One therm represents a fairly large amount of heat, equal to one hundred thousand British thermal units, and older gas bills, meters and heating appliances were often marked in therms. The word is now largely historical in everyday billing, though it still appears in older documents, engineering texts and discussions of heating efficiency that predate the change in units. Outside these technical and historical contexts, therm is rarely used in ordinary speech.
How THERM is used
Technical, associated chiefly with older British gas bills and heating engineering.
- The old gas bill listed consumption in therms.
- One therm supplied enough heat to run the boiler for hours.
- Engineers compared the two heaters by their output in therms.
- The meter had not been read in therms for over a decade.
- He converted the reading from therms into kilowatt-hours.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THERM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THERM
Showing 24 of 183 words that begin with THERM.
Words ending in THERM
11 words end in THERM. Useful as a back hook: play THERM onto a word already on the board.
Words with THERM inside
Showing 24 of 139 words that contain THERM somewhere in the middle. Words that start with THERM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in THERM
Common questions about THERM
- Is THERM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THERM, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THERM worth?
- THERM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THERM mean?
- A unit of heat energy equal to one hundred thousand British thermal units, formerly used as the standard measure for gas supplied to homes in Britain.
- What letters can be added to THERM?
- THERM takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of THERM:
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