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TAMPING

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TAMPING Means

TAMPING is a form of TAMP, which means:

  1. noun: a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
  2. verb: press down tightly“tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TAMPING 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 T1 A1 M3 P3 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In TAMPING

113 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 (6)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (34)

3 letter words (46)

2 letter words (15)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.