UME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. UME 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept UME?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UME is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UME scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in UME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What stands out about UME
- The same 3 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 UME mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A sour Japanese fruit related to the plum and apricot, often pickled or used to flavour drinks.
Ume grows on a small tree cultivated across Japan and is picked while still green and tart. Cooks pickle it into umeboshi or steep it in alcohol and sugar to make umeshu, since the raw fruit is too sour to eat straight from the branch.
How UME is used
Used when discussing Japanese food and drink rather than everyday cooking terms.
- The jar of pickled ume sat beside the rice.
- She poured a glass of ume liqueur after dinner.
- Every spring the ume trees bloom before the cherry blossoms.
- He mixed ume paste into the dressing for extra tartness.
- The market sold baskets of green ume in early summer.
- A single ume pit remained at the bottom of the bowl.
- The chef used ume vinegar instead of plain rice vinegar.
- Grandmother still steeps her own batch of ume every year.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UME and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see UME
- Ume is closer botanically to the apricot than the plum, despite the common English translation Japanese plum.
- The fruit called ume is almost always eaten pickled, dried, or steeped, since it is too sour and acidic to eat raw.
Anagrams of UME
The 3 tiles of UME in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with UME
3 longer words begin with UME.
Words ending in UME
Showing 24 of 43 words that end in UME. Useful as a back hook: play UME onto a word already on the board.
Words with UME inside
Showing 24 of 545 words that contain UME somewhere in the middle. Words that start with UME are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in UME
Common questions about UME
- Is UME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UME is not in it.
- How many points is UME worth?
- UME is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UME mean?
- A sour Japanese fruit related to the plum and apricot, often pickled or used to flavour drinks.
- What letters can be added to UME?
- UME takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of UME:
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