ZYME is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. ZYME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZYME?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZYME is to know. It scores 18 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZYME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZYME scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ZYME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 81,692.
What stands out about ZYME
- ZYME scores 18 points, more than twice the average for a 4-letter word (7.7).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZYME mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A ferment; the supposed agent of a disease.
Zyme is the Greek word for leaven and survives in English chiefly inside enzyme, which means in the leaven. On its own it is a nineteenth-century medical term from before anybody knew what caused infection.
How ZYME is used
Countable: a zyme, two zymes. Archaic.
- A zyme was what doctors blamed before germs were known.
- The word zyme is Greek for leaven.
- Enzyme contains zyme and means in the leaven.
- Two zymes were proposed for the same illness.
- Nobody has used zyme in medicine for a century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZYME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZYME
1 longer words begin with ZYME.
Words ending in ZYME
15 words end in ZYME. Useful as a back hook: play ZYME onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZYME inside
15 words contain ZYME in the middle. Words that start with ZYME are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZYME
Common questions about ZYME
- Is ZYME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZYME, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZYME worth?
- ZYME is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZYME mean?
- A ferment; the supposed agent of a disease.
- What letters can be added to ZYME?
- ZYME takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ZYME:
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