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Is shimmer a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word shimmer is a Scrabble US word. The word shimmer is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

S1H4I1M3M3E1R1

Is shimmer a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word shimmer is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

S1H4I1M3M3E1R1

Is shimmer a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word shimmer is a Words With Friends word. The word shimmer is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1H3I1M4M4E1R1

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7-letter words (1 found)

SHIMMER,

6-letter words (5 found)

IMMESH,MERISM,MIMERS,RHIMES,SIMMER,

5-letter words (17 found)

EMIRS,HEIRS,HERMS,HIEMS,HIRES,MERIS,MIMER,MIMES,MIRES,MISER,RHIES,RHIME,RIEMS,RIMES,SEHRI,SHIER,SHIRE,

4-letter words (32 found)

EISH,EMIR,HEIR,HEMS,HERM,HERS,HIES,HIMS,HIRE,IRES,MEMS,MERI,MESH,MIME,MIRE,MIRS,MISE,REHS,REIS,REMS,RESH,RIEM,RIME,RIMS,RISE,SEIR,SEMI,SHIM,SHIR,SHRI,SIRE,SMIR,

3-letter words (31 found)

EHS,EMS,ERM,ERS,HEM,HER,HES,HIE,HIM,HIS,HMM,IRE,ISH,ISM,MEH,MEM,MES,MIM,MIR,MIS,REH,REI,REM,RES,RIM,SEI,SER,SHE,SIM,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (14 found)

EH,EM,ER,ES,HE,HI,HM,IS,ME,MI,MM,RE,SH,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 101 words from shimmer according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of shimmer

shimmer

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.

Verb

shimmer (third-person singular simple present shimmers, present participle shimmering, simple past and past participle shimmered)

  1. (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
    Synonyms: twinkle, sparkle, glisten, glimmer
    • 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135,[1]
      With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
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Noun

shimmer (plural shimmers)

  1. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
    Synonym: glimmer
  2. (signal processing) A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
    Coordinate term: jitter
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Further reading

  • “shimmer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “shimmer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

shim +‎ -er

Noun

shimmer (plural shimmers)

  1. (crime) A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
Coordinate terms

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɪˈmiː/

Verb

shimmer (present participle shimmereen)

  1. to glitter

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

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