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Is chum a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word chum is a Scrabble US word. The word chum is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

C3H4U1M3

Is chum a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chum is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3H4U1M3

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Yes. The word chum is a Words With Friends word. The word chum is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

CHUM,MUCH,

3-letter words (2 found)

CUM,HUM,

2-letter words (5 found)

CH,HM,MU,UH,UM,

You can make 9 words from chum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of chum

chum hcum cuhm uchm hucm uhcm chmu hcmu cmhu mchu hmcu mhcu cumh ucmh cmuh mcuh umch much humc uhmc hmuc mhuc umhc muhc

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

Definitions and meaning of chum

chum

Etymology 1

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

chum (plural chums)

  1. (dated) A friend; a pal.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
  2. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → French: chum (Québec)
  • → Spanish: chamo (Venezuela)
  • Sranan Tongo: tyamu
  • → Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)
  • → Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)
Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

  1. (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
  2. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
  3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
  4. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.

Etymology 2

Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

chum (uncountable)

  1. (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
Derived terms
  • chum in the water
  • chumsicle
Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

  1. (fishing, transitive, intransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

chum (plural chums)

  1. (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
    • 1921, A Survey and Analysis of the Pottery Industry, bulletin no. 67, trade and industrial series no. 20, Washington: Federal Board for Vocational Training.
      Chum,—A mold used on the whirler to hold ware for scraping and finishing.

Etymology 4

From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”), from Chinook.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

chum (plural chums)

  1. Synonym of chum salmon

Etymology 5

From Russian чум (čum), from Komi-Zyrian чум (ćum) and/or Udmurt чум (ćum, “tent, shelter”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃuːm/
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

chum (plural chums)

  1. A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.

References

Anagrams

  • much

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

chum

  1. to sit

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃɔm/

Noun

chum m (plural chums, feminine blonde or chum de fille)

  1. (Canada, informal, Quebec) boyfriend
    Synonyms: petit ami, ami de cœur, (dated) fiancé, conjoint
    Coordinate term: blonde
  2. (Canada, chiefly slang, Quebec) a friend, usually male; a chum
    Synonyms: copain, ami
    Coordinate term: chum de fille

Derived terms

  • chum de fille

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of cum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xuːmˠ/, /xʊmˠ/

Verb

chum

  1. past indicative analytic of cum
  2. Lenited form of cum.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dochum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xʊnˠ/

Preposition

chum (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

  1. Obsolete spelling of chun

Mapudungun

Pronoun

chum (Unified spelling)

  1. (interrogative) how

Old Irish

Verb

·chum

  1. Lenited form of ·cum.

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *qumaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qumaŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *qumaŋ. Cognate with Cebuano umang, Tiruray kumang, Marshallese om̧.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔum/

Noun

chum

  1. hermit crab

Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

chum (+ genitive)

  1. Alternative form of chun

Verb

chum

  1. past indicative of cum

Mutation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕum˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕum˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [cʊm˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cái) chum • (𡓯)

  1. a kind of vase used to contain liquids or rice

See also

  • hũ
  • lu
  • tĩn
  • vại

Source: wiktionary.org