What BUMPING Means
BUMPING is a form of BUMP, which means:
- verb: knock against with force or violence“My car bumped into the tree”
- verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with“We find this idea in Plato”
- noun: a lump on the body caused by a blow
- noun: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings“the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BUMPING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 M3 P3 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BUMPING
58 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 (2)
5 letter words (1)
4 letter words (13)
3 letter words (30)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.