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Is seam a Scrabble word?

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

S1E1A1M3

Is seam a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1E1A1M3

Is seam a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word seam is a Words With Friends word. The word seam is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1E1A1M4

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4-letter words (6 found)

AMES,MAES,MASE,MESA,SAME,SEAM,

3-letter words (10 found)

AME,EAS,EMS,MAE,MAS,MES,SAE,SAM,SEA,SMA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AM,AS,EA,EM,ES,MA,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 25 words from seam according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of seam

seam esam saem asem easm aesm sema esma smea msea emsa mesa same asme smae msae amse mase eams aems emas meas ames maes

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Definitions and meaning of seam

seam

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siːm/
  • Homophones: seem, seme
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

Alternative forms

  • seme (obsolete)

Noun

seam (plural seams)

  2. (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
  3. A suture.
  5. (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
  6. (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
  8. (construction, nautical) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
  9. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
  10. (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
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Etymology 2

From the noun seam.

Verb

seam (third-person singular simple present seams, present participle seaming, simple past and past participle seamed)

  1. To put together with a seam.
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor:
      Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
  2. To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
  3. To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
  4. To crack open along a seam.
  5. (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
  6. (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.

Etymology 3

From Old English sēam (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).

Noun

seam (plural seams)

  1. (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
  2. (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.

Etymology 4

From Middle English seym (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).

Alternative forms

  • saim

Noun

seam (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Grease; tallow; lard.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Further reading

  • seam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • seam (sewing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • hemming and seaming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • AMEs, ASME, Ames, EMAS, MSAE, Mesa, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, same

Old English

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sæ͜ɑːm/

Noun

sēam m (nominative plural sēamas)

  1. seam

Declension

Derived terms

  • sēamere
  • sēamestre

Descendants

  • Middle English: seem, ceem, ceme, sem, seme, seyme
    • English: seam
    • Scots: seam

Source: wiktionary.org