What STEM Means
- noun: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed“thematic vowels are part of the stem”
- noun: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- verb: grow out of, have roots in, originate in“The increase in the national debt stems from the last war”
- verb: cause to point inward“stem your skis”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STEM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 E1 M3.
Anagrams of STEM (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STEM
12 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing STEM
STEM appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ABSTEMIOUSAGROSTEMMABLASTEMABLASTEMALBLASTEMASBLASTEMATABLASTEMICBLUESTEMBLUESTEMSBRAINSTEMBRAINSTEMSDESTEMPERDESTEMPERSDIASTEMDIASTEMADIASTEMASDIASTEMATADIASTEMSDISTEMPERDISTEMPERSECOSYSTEMECOSYSTEMSEPISTEMICEPISTEMICSERIOSTEMONGYNOSTEMIAMERISTEMMERISTEMSMISTEMPERMISTEMPERSNONSYSTEMNONSYSTEMSPENSTEMONPENSTEMONSPENTSTEMONPIPESTEMPIPESTEMSRESTEMRESTEMMEDRESTEMMING
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.