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Is leam a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word leam is a Scrabble US word. The word leam is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is leam a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word leam is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

L1E1A1M3

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4-letter words (6 found)

ALME,LAME,LEAM,MALE,MEAL,MELA,

3-letter words (8 found)

ALE,AME,ELM,LAM,LEA,MAE,MAL,MEL,

2-letter words (9 found)

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

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from leam according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of leam

leam elam laem alem ealm aelm lema elma lmea mlea emla mela lame alme lmae mlae amle male eaml aeml emal meal amel mael

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Definitions and meaning of leam

leam

Alternative forms

  • leem, leme

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).

Verb

leam (third-person singular simple present leams, present participle leaming, simple past and past participle leamed)

  1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.
Derived terms
  • leamer

Etymology 2

From Middle English leme, from Old English lēoma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).

Noun

leam (plural leams)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.

See also

  • gleam

Etymology 3

See leamer, lien.

Noun

leam (plural leams)

  1. A cord or strap for leading a dog.

Anagrams

  • -meal, Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, lema, male, meal, mela, mela-

Galician

Verb

leam

  1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) third-person plural present indicative of lear
  2. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of ler:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Latin

Noun

leam

  1. accusative singular of lea

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish lem. Cognates include Irish liom and Manx lhiam.

Pronunciation

  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /lɔ̃ũm/, /ləm/
  • (Uist, Barra, Skye, Sutherland) IPA(key): /lu(ː)m/ (as if spelled lium)
  • (Argyll) IPA(key): /lɛm/
  • Hyphenation: leam

Pronoun

leam

  1. first-person singular of le: with me; by me
    Is toil leam Glaschu. ― I like Glasgow. (literally, “Is pleasure with me Glasgow.”)

Inflection

References

  • Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish léim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːm/

Noun

leam

  1. jump

Derived terms

  • murreen-leam

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58

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