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SWAMPING

8 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SWAMPING Means

SWAMPING is a form of SWAMP, which 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”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SWAMPING 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 S1 W4 A1 M3 P3 I1 N1 G2.

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