WAME is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. WAME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAME?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAME is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAME scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WAME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does WAME mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
The belly or stomach, in Scottish usage.
Wame is the Scots form of a word that English lost entirely, and it survives in verse and in fixed phrases. Standard English replaced it with a French borrowing.
How WAME is used
Countable: a wame, two wames. Scots.
- A full wame and a warm fire.
- The word wame is the Scots form of one English lost.
- Two wames well filled, as the song has it.
- Standard English replaced wame with a French word.
- Wame survives in verse more than in speech.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAME
6 longer words begin with WAME.
Shorter words from the letters in WAME
Common questions about WAME
- Is WAME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAME, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAME worth?
- WAME is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAME mean?
- The belly or stomach, in Scottish usage.
- What letters can be added to WAME?
- WAME takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WAME:
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