VEHME is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. VEHME 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VEHME?
| 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 VEHME is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VEHME
No single letter turns VEHME into another word.
How VEHME scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VEHME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 142,590.
What does VEHME mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A secret tribunal that operated in medieval Germany, especially Westphalia, trying and punishing offenders outside the ordinary courts.
A vehme drew its members from local free judges who met in secret and could pass sentence, including death, without the accused ever appearing before it. The institution grew out of the weak royal justice of the region and filled a gap that the ordinary courts left open. Later writers used the vehme as a byword for hidden justice carried out by masked judges, an image that outlived the actual courts by centuries.
How VEHME is used
Found in history books and older fiction about medieval Germany rather than in ordinary conversation.
- The novel describes a vehme convening at midnight to judge a man accused of theft.
- Historians trace the vehme back to the free courts of Westphalia.
- Members of the vehme swore never to reveal what happened at its meetings.
- By the sixteenth century the vehme had lost most of its old authority.
- The film borrowed the vehme as a model for its secret council of judges.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VEHME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VEHME
Common questions about VEHME
- Is VEHME valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VEHME is not in it.
- How many points is VEHME worth?
- VEHME is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VEHME mean?
- A secret tribunal that operated in medieval Germany, especially Westphalia, trying and punishing offenders outside the ordinary courts.
- What letters can be added to VEHME?
- No single letter can be added to VEHME to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VEHME:
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