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OPOSSUMS

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What OPOSSUMS Means

OPOSSUMS is a form of OPOSSUM, which means:

  1. noun: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
  2. noun: nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OPOSSUMS 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 O1 P3 O1 S1 S1 U1 M3 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In OPOSSUMS

87 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.

7 letter words (2)

6 letter words (3)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (26)

2 letter words (12)

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