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Is berm a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word berm is a Scrabble US word. The word berm is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

B3E1R1M3

Is berm a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word berm is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

B3E1R1M3

Is berm a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word berm is a Words With Friends word. The word berm is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4E1R1M4

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4-letter words (1 found)

BERM,

3-letter words (3 found)

ERM,REB,REM,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,EM,ER,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from berm according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of berm

berm ebrm brem rbem erbm rebm bemr ebmr bmer mber embr mebr brme rbme bmre mbre rmbe mrbe ermb remb emrb merb rmeb mreb

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word berm. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in berm.

Definitions and meaning of berm

berm

Etymology

From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”). Related to English brim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɜː(ɹ)m/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m

Noun

berm (plural berms)

  1. A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
  3. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
    Synonym: (canal path) heelpath
  5. (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
    Synonyms: (US) bench, (US) bench floor
    Coordinate terms: (Australia) batter, (US) bench face
  7. A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
  8. A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
  10. (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
    Synonym: (Australia) windrow
  11. A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
  12. (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:verge
  13. (Western Pennsylvania) The edge of a road.

Derived terms

  • Cape Cod berm

Translations

Verb

berm (third-person singular simple present berms, present participle berming, simple past and past participle bermed)

  1. To provide something with a berm

Anagrams

  • Brem

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch baerm, from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛrm/
  • Hyphenation: berm
  • Rhymes: -ɛrm

Noun

berm m (plural bermen, diminutive bermpje n)

  1. berm, verge, tree lawn, roadside (strip of land next to a road, street or sidewalk)

Derived terms

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English beorma.

Noun

berm

  1. Alternative form of berme

Etymology 2

From Old English bearm.

Noun

berm

  1. Alternative form of barm

Source: wiktionary.org