GUMMA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GUMMA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GUMMA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUMMA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUMMA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gummasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GUMMA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GUMMA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 697,107.
What does GUMMA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A soft, rubbery growth of tissue that forms in the late stage of untreated syphilis, most often in the liver, skin, bone, or other organs.
A gumma develops years after the original infection, once the disease has progressed to what doctors call tertiary syphilis, and it can gradually destroy the surrounding tissue if left untreated. Antibiotics largely prevent the condition from reaching this stage today, so a gumma is now mostly discussed in historical medical case studies and in regions with limited access to early treatment.
How GUMMA is used
A specialist pathology term, encountered mainly in medical textbooks and historical case studies of late-stage syphilis.
- The pathologist identified a gumma in the patient's liver tissue.
- Untreated syphilis can progress to the formation of a gumma decades later.
- Old medical drawings depicted a gumma eating into the bone of the skull.
- A biopsy confirmed that the growth was a syphilitic gumma.
- Textbooks list a gumma among the classic signs of tertiary syphilis.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUMMA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GUMMA
3 longer words begin with GUMMA.
Shorter words from the letters in GUMMA
Common questions about GUMMA
- Is GUMMA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUMMA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUMMA worth?
- GUMMA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUMMA mean?
- A soft, rubbery growth of tissue that forms in the late stage of untreated syphilis, most often in the liver, skin, bone, or other organs.
- What letters can be added to GUMMA?
- GUMMA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GUMMA:
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