What POSSUMS Means
POSSUMS is a form of POSSUM, which means:
- noun: nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
- noun: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
POSSUMS 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 P3 O1 S1 S1 U1 M3 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In POSSUMS
64 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 (7)
4 letter words (23)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (11)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.