What MUMPS Means
- noun: an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
MUMPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 U1 M3 P3 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In MUMPS
18 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 (4)
3 letter words (9)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing MUMPS
MUMPS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.