Samekh

6 lettersnounrare

Updated June 2026

Definition

The fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, roughly equivalent to the English letter S.

“The scribe carefully inscribed the samekh on the parchment as he copied the ancient text.”

Pronunciation

Syllables

sa·mekh

Word Game Tips

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Wordle

Ends in -KH, an unusual consonant pair, K is uncommon in Wordle and immediately narrows candidates

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Scrabble

K scores 5 and H scores 4, high-value tiles but a very specialist word not in all dictionaries

Words Related to Samekh

Words you can make from Samekh

Shorter words formed from the letters in “samekh”.

ahems haems hakes hames kames makes sahme samek shake shame shema ahem asem haem haes hake hame hams hask hems keas make mash mask

Add a letter to make a longer word

7-letter words you can spell by adding one letter to “samekh”.

hakeems

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