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SWAMP

5 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SWAMP Means

  1. noun: low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
  2. noun: a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables“he was trapped in a medical swamp”
  3. verb: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged“The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor”
  4. verb: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid“the basement was inundated after the storm”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SWAMP is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 W4 A1 M3 P3.

Words Made From The Letters In SWAMP

32 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 (12)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing SWAMP

SWAMP appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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