OUMA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. OUMA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept OUMA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUMA is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUMA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OUMA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in OUMA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What does OUMA mean in Scrabble?
noun
South African
An affectionate name for a grandmother, borrowed directly from Afrikaans into South African English.
Ouma comes from Afrikaans and is used much like granny or nana elsewhere, both as a name a child calls a grandmother directly and as a word attached to a surname, such as Ouma Smit. Either way, ouma carries the same warmth as other family nicknames.
How OUMA is used
South African English and Afrikaans-influenced usage; roughly equivalent to granny or nana.
- Every Sunday the children visit their ouma for lunch.
- Ouma still bakes rusks the old-fashioned way.
- He calls his grandmother ouma, never grandmother.
- The recipe was passed down from his ouma.
- Ouma Bettie ran the farm stall for forty years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUMA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OUMA
1 longer words begin with OUMA.
Words ending in OUMA
2 words end in OUMA. Useful as a back hook: play OUMA onto a word already on the board.
Words with OUMA inside
16 words contain OUMA in the middle. Words that start with OUMA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OUMA
Common questions about OUMA
- Is OUMA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and OUMA is not in it.
- How many points is OUMA worth?
- OUMA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUMA mean?
- An affectionate name for a grandmother, borrowed directly from Afrikaans into South African English.
- What letters can be added to OUMA?
- OUMA takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of OUMA:
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