What AMALGAM Means
- noun: an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
- noun: a combination or blend of diverse things“his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
AMALGAM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 M3 A1 L1 G2 A1 M3.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In AMALGAM
35 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.
6 letter words (1)
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (11)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (7)
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