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Yes. The word gum is a Scrabble US word. The word gum is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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G2U1M3

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3-letter words (2 found)

GUM,MUG,

2-letter words (4 found)

GU,MU,UG,UM,

You can make 6 words from gum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gum

gum

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gŭm, IPA(key): /ɡʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm
  • Homophone: gome

Etymology 1

From Middle English gome, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô, *gaumô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂u-mo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to gape, yawn”).

See also German Gaumen, Old Norse gómr, Icelandic gómur; also Tocharian A ko, Tocharian B koyṃ (“mouth”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”). More at yawn.

Noun

gum (plural gums)

  1. (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
Synonyms
  • gingiva (medical)
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

  1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
  2. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.

Noun

gum (countable and uncountable, plural gums)

  1. (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
  2. (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
  3. (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
  4. (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
  5. (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
  6. (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
  7. (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
  8. (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
  10. A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
    Hyponyms: black gum, sour gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree
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Translations

Verb

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

  1. (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
  2. To stiffen with glue or gum.
  3. (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
  4. (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
Derived terms
  • gum up
  • gummable
  • by gum

Anagrams

  • MGU, mug

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡum]
  • Rhymes: -um

Noun

gum

  1. genitive plural of guma

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • gom (now restricted to Belgium in the meaning “eraser”).

Etymology

A relatively recent variant of gom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣʏm/
  • Hyphenation: gum

Noun

gum m (plural gummen, diminutive gummetje n)

  1. an eraser

Derived terms

  • gummen
  • kneedgum

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡùm/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɡʷʊ̀m]

Ideophone

gùm

  1. smelling bad

Alternative forms

  • sùm

Icelandic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention, heed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʏːm/
  • Rhymes: -ʏːm

Noun

gum n (genitive singular gums, no plural)

  1. boasting, exaggeration
    Synonyms: gort, raup

Declension

Derived terms

  • guma (“to boast, to exaggerate”)

References

Middle English

Noun

gum

  1. alternative form of gumme

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡum/
  • Rhymes: -um
  • Syllabification: gum

Noun

gum f pl

  1. genitive plural of guma

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kum. Compare to Turkish kum, etc.

Pronunciation

  • (Ejia, Daowei, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [kum]

Noun

gum (3rd person possessive gumı, plural gumlar)

  1. sand

References

  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “kum”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 395
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “gum”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 109

Scots

Etymology 1

From English gum.

Noun

gum (plural gums)

  1. gum

Etymology 2

Uncertain; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.

Alternative forms

  • gumm

Noun

gum (plural gums)

  1. mist, vapour, haze

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • gu
  • gun

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəm/

Conjunction

gum

  1. that
    Tha mi cinnteach gum biodh e toilichte. - I'm certain that he would be happy.

Usage notes

  • Used before b, f, m and p.

Sumerian

Romanization

gum

  1. romanization of 𒄣 (gum)

Turkmen

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kum (“sand”). Cognates with Turkish kum.

Noun

gum (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. sand

Further reading

  • “gum” in Enedilim.com
  • “gum” in Webonary.org

Zazaki

Noun

gum

  1. (anatomy) cheek

Source: wiktionary.org