WAMED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WAMED 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WAMED?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAMED is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAMED
No single letter turns WAMED into another word.
How WAMED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WAMED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does WAMED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Having a belly of a stated kind.
Wamed is built from wame, an old dialect word for the belly or womb, and it describes the shape of a person or animal's midsection rather than any action. It usually turns up joined to another word, as in a description of someone as big-wamed, rather than standing entirely alone.
How WAMED is used
Regional dialect; usually combined with another word describing the belly.
- The old farmer was described in the ballad as broad-wamed and slow.
- A wamed figure sat heavily by the fire in the story.
- The glossary explains wamed as simply having a wame.
- Children in the tale mocked the wamed old troll.
- Dialect speech kept wamed long after wame itself grew rare.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAMED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WAMED
The 5 tiles of WAMED in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in WAMED
Common questions about WAMED
- Is WAMED valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WAMED is not in it.
- How many points is WAMED worth?
- WAMED is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAMED mean?
- Having a belly of a stated kind.
- What letters can be added to WAMED?
- No single letter can be added to WAMED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WAMED:
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