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

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5-letter words (1 found)

GLEAM,

4-letter words (14 found)

ALME,EGAL,EGMA,GALE,GAME,GEAL,GLAM,LAME,LEAM,MAGE,MALE,MEAL,MEGA,MELA,

3-letter words (18 found)

AGE,ALE,AME,ELM,GAE,GAL,GAM,GEL,GEM,LAG,LAM,LEA,LEG,MAE,MAG,MAL,MEG,MEL,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AG,AL,AM,EA,EL,EM,LA,MA,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

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

All 5 letters words made out of gleam

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Definitions and meaning of gleam

gleam

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡliːm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɡlim/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English glem, gleam, gleme (“shaft of light; part of a comet’s tail; reflected sparkle; dawn; daylight; radiance (physical or spiritual); something fleeting”), from Old English glǣm (“gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (“brightness; splendour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”).

Noun

gleam (countable and uncountable, plural gleams)

  1. (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
    Synonym: (Britain, dialectal) leam
  2. (countable, figuratively)
    1. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
      Synonyms: flicker, glimmer, trace
    2. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
    3. A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
  3. (obsolete)
    1. (countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
    2. (uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
      Synonyms: dazzle, lambency, shine
Derived terms
  • agleam
  • gleamless
  • gleamy
  • weather-gleam
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English glemen (“to shine; to glance, look”) [and other forms], from glem, gleam (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).

Verb

gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed)

  1. (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
      Synonyms: glint, glow, (Britain, dialectal) leam, sparkle
    2. (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
      Synonyms: flare, flash, kindle
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • gleamer
  • gleaming (adjective, noun)
  • gleamingly
Translations

Etymology 3

A variant of Middle English gleimen, gleym (“to smear; to make slimy or sticky; to fill up (the stomach); to nauseate; of a slimy or viscous substance: to be stuck together; (figuratively) to captivate, ensnare; to infect with heresy”) [and other forms], probably a blend of glet (“slimy or viscous matter produced by animals; mucus, phlegm; congestion of mucus or phlegm in the body; viscosity”), gleu (“substance used to stick things together, glue; viscous medicine made from plants”), etc. + Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”) (whence Old English clǣman (“to smear”)) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”), from *klaimaz (“clay; mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)).

Verb

gleam (third-person singular simple present gleams, present participle gleaming, simple past and past participle gleamed)

  1. (intransitive, falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.

References

Further reading

  • gleam (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “gleam”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
  • “gleam, n. and v.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
  • "gleam" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

  • Gamel, megal-

Source: wiktionary.org