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ALUMS

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What ALUMS Means

ALUMS is a form of ALUM, which means:

  1. noun: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
  2. noun: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ALUMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 L1 U1 M3 S1.

Anagrams of ALUMS (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In ALUMS

36 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.

4 letter words (13)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing ALUMS

ALUMS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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