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Is worm a Scrabble word?

Yes, worm is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of worm?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (archaic or poetic) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.Examples: "1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 28:3-4, And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue."; "[…] No, ’tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile […]"; "When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm! His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks; Not a limb had he that was motionless."archaicpoetic

2. (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.Examples: "In the Cross of Cong (A.D. 1123) the Celtic inter-laced patterns are found side by side with the "worm-dragon" ornament .."; "Indeed the allusion to the more renowned worm killed by the Wælsing is sufficient indication that the poet selected a dragon of well-founded purpose[.]"; "The after fifty years a foul worm, a dragon, took it upon itself to hold sway through the heavens at night."archaic

3. (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.archaic

4. (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.Examples: "When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book."

5. (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.

6. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.Examples: "We wormed our way through the underbrush."transitive

2. (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.Examples: "Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath[…]."intransitive

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.Examples: "When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded."figurativelyintransitive

4. (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.Examples: "He wormed his way into the organization."; "With “facts” generated by Wikipedia worming themselves into every corner of our digital lives, such as your Alexa speaker or iPhone, perhaps it’s the ubiquity of information that’s the problem – and something that should concern us all."figurativelytransitive

5. (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.Examples: "They […]find themselves wormed out of all power."often

6. (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).Examples: "They[…]wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell."; "He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers—it can't be kep' out. There'd be too much of a row if twas!" "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. "I've got a awk'ard job—to try and worm something out of the barmaid.""figurativelytransitive

noun (English)

1. (computing, computer hardware) Initialism of write once, read many.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "worm"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "worm"?

Scrabble
9 points
W4
O1
R1
M3
Words With Friends
10 points
W4
O1
R1
M4

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