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TAMPS

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What TAMPS Means

TAMPS 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

TAMPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 A1 M3 P3 S1.

Anagrams of TAMPS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In TAMPS

41 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 (15)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing TAMPS

TAMPS 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.