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Is ammo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ammo is a Scrabble US word. The word ammo is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

A1M3M3O1

Is ammo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ammo is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

A1M3M3O1

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Yes. The word ammo is a Words With Friends word. The word ammo is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

AMMO,

3-letter words (4 found)

MAM,MOA,MOM,OMA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AM,MA,MM,MO,OM,

You can make 10 words from ammo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ammo

ammo mamo ammo mamo mmao mmao amom maom aomm oamm moam omam amom maom aomm oamm moam omam mmoa mmoa moma omma moma omma

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word ammo. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in ammo.

Definitions and meaning of ammo

ammo

Etymology

Clipping of ammunition +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæ.moʊ/
  • Rhymes: -æməʊ

Noun

ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)

  1. (informal) Ammunition.

Derived terms

Verb

ammo (third-person singular simple present ammos, present participle ammoing, simple past and past participle ammoed)

  1. (transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.
    Synonym: ammo up

Further reading

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “ammo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

  • Mamo, MoMA, OMAM, mamo

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ammo, from Proto-Uralic *aŋmɜ-. Cognate to Ingrian ammillaa, Votic ammulla, Estonian ammuli, Estonian ammu, Livonian amtlõ (“to yawn”), Skolt Sami ämmsõddâd (“to yawn”), Western Mari [script needed] (omeštaš, “to talk or move while in sleep or to talk unclearly”), Southern Selkup [script needed] (āmmu-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”) (Ket), Kamassian [script needed] (a’moi-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmːo/, [ˈɑ̝mːo̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑmːo
  • Syllabification(key): am‧mo

Noun

ammo (dialectal, rare)

  1. something that widens on a mouth section, like a mouth or a cavity

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “ammo”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja‎[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
  • “ammuli”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  • Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎[2] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā, “as for”).

Conjunction

ammo

  1. but

Source: wiktionary.org