What WAMPUMS Means
WAMPUMS is a form of WAMPUM, which means:
- noun: informal terms for money
- noun: small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WAMPUMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 A1 M3 P3 U1 M3 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In WAMPUMS
71 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 (4)
5 letter words (6)
4 letter words (23)
3 letter words (28)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.