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Is bream a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bream is a Scrabble US word. The word bream is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is bream a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bream is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

B3R1E1A1M3

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Yes. The word bream is a Words With Friends word. The word bream is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (4 found)

AMBER,BRAME,BREAM,EMBAR,

4-letter words (11 found)

ABER,BARE,BARM,BEAM,BEAR,BEMA,BERM,BRAE,MABE,MARE,REAM,

3-letter words (16 found)

AME,ARB,ARE,ARM,BAE,BAM,BAR,BRA,EAR,ERA,ERM,MAE,MAR,RAM,REB,REM,

2-letter words (12 found)

AB,AE,AM,AR,BA,BE,EA,EM,ER,MA,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 44 words from bream according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bream

bream

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

Pronunciation

  • (British) IPA(key): /bɹiːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm
  • (US) IPA(key): /bɹɪm/, /bɹim/, /bɹɛm/
  • Rhymes: -ɪm
  • Homophone: brim

Noun

bream (plural bream or breams)

  1. A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
  2. (British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
    Synonym: carp bream
  3. An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
  4. A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
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Etymology 2

Compare broom, and German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).

Verb

bream (third-person singular simple present breams, present participle breaming, simple past and past participle breamed)

  1. (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

Anagrams

  • Amber, Brame, amber, bemar, brame, embar

Galician

Verb

bream

  1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) third-person plural present indicative of brear

Source: wiktionary.org