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JAM

3 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What JAM Means

  1. verb: press tightly together or cram“The crowd packed the auditorium”
  2. verb: push down forcibly“The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor”
  3. noun: preserve of crushed fruit
  4. noun: informal terms for a difficult situation“he got into a terrible fix”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JAM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 A1 M3.

Words Made From The Letters In JAM

3 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.

2 letter words (3)

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