Is VIM valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts VIM, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is VIM worth?

VIM is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to VIM?

VIM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

VIM is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points

Yes. VIM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.

v4i1m3

PlayableVIM · 3 letters · 8 pts Scrabble · 10 pts WWF

8points in Scrabble

10points in Words with Friends

3letters

1hook available

1 in 4,492odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept VIM?

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: 37 / 100

37WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

2.67

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

4.33%

Our own measure of how useful VIM is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for VIM

Front hooks — 0

None.

Back hooks — 1

vims9

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.

How VIM scores

Scrabble v4i1m3 8

Words with Friends v5i1m4 10

Face value of the 3 tiles in VIM, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
v	1	2
i	1	9
m	1	2

Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.

What does VIM mean in Scrabble?

noun

Energy and enthusiasm.

Vim survives almost entirely inside one phrase — vim and vigour — which is what happens to a word that means much the same as its partner and rhymes with very little. It came out of Latin, probably as a joke among people who had studied it, and it has been faintly comic ever since.

How VIM is used

Uncountable: full of vim. Chiefly in vim and vigour.

She came back from the holiday full of vim.
The phrase vim and vigour says one thing twice.
There was no vim in the second half at all.
A team with vim beats a team with a plan sometimes.
The word vim is Latin and slightly ridiculous.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of VIM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Words starting with VIM

vims9 vimen10 vimana11 vimina11 vimanas12 viminal12 vimineous14

7 longer words begin with VIM.

Words ending in VIM

eruvim11 moshavim18

2 words end in VIM. Useful as a back hook: play VIM onto a word already on the board.

Words with VIM inside

gravimeter16 gravimetry19 pelvimeter17 pelvimetry20 gravimeters17 gravimetric19 pelvimeters18 gravimetries18 pelvimetries19 gravimetrical21 gravimetrically26

11 words contain VIM in the middle. Words that start with VIM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.

Shorter words from the letters in VIM

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Common questions about VIM

Is VIM valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts VIM, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is VIM worth?: VIM is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
What does VIM mean?: Energy and enthusiasm.
What letters can be added to VIM?: VIM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 3 letters of VIM:

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