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SUMS

4 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SUMS Means

SUMS is a form of SUM, which means:

  1. noun: a quantity of money“he borrowed a large sum”
  2. noun: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
  3. verb: be a summary of“The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper”
  4. verb: determine the sum of“Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SUMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 U1 M3 S1.

Anagrams of SUMS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SUMS

7 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.

3 letter words (4)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing SUMS

SUMS 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.