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Is cram a Scrabble word?

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

C3R1A1M3

Is cram a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3R1A1M3

Is cram a Words With Friends word?

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

C4R1A1M4

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4-letter words (2 found)

CRAM,MARC,

3-letter words (7 found)

ARC,ARM,CAM,CAR,MAC,MAR,RAM,

2-letter words (3 found)

AM,AR,MA,

You can make 12 words from cram according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cram

cram rcam carm acrm racm arcm crma rcma cmra mcra rmca mrca camr acmr cmar mcar amcr macr ramc armc rmac mrac amrc marc

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

Definitions and meaning of cram

cram

Etymology

From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹæm/
  • Rhymes: -æm

Verb

cram (third-person singular simple present crams, present participle cramming, simple past and past participle crammed)

  1. (transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
  2. (transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  3. (transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
  4. (intransitive) To study hard; to swot.
  5. (intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
  6. (intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
  7. (transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

Derived terms

  • crammable
  • crammer
  • cram-full
  • cram it
  • cram school
  • cram session

Translations

Noun

cram (countable and uncountable, plural crams)

  1. The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
  2. Information hastily memorized.
  3. (weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  4. (dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lie
  5. (uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
  6. A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.

Translations

References

  • (verb senses: studying and telling lies): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • MRCA, Marc, macr-, marc, mrca

Source: wiktionary.org