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GUMBOS

6 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GUMBOS Means

GUMBOS is a form of GUMBO, which means:

  1. noun: any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
  2. noun: tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GUMBOS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 U1 M3 B3 O1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In GUMBOS

62 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.

5 letter words (4)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (13)

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