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Is pam a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pam is a Scrabble US word. The word pam is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

P3A1M3

Is pam a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pam is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

P3A1M3

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Yes. The word pam is a Words With Friends word. The word pam is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (3 found)

AMP,MAP,PAM,

2-letter words (3 found)

AM,MA,PA,

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

Definitions and meaning of pam

pam

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Kapampangan or Kapampangan Kapampángan.

Symbol

pam

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kapampangan.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Kapampangan terms

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæm/
  • Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.

Noun

pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)

  1. The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
  2. A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

Etymology 2

Probably alteration of panorama.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

  1. (dated, photography) A panorama.

Verb

pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)

  1. (dated, photography) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.

See also

  • pam off

Etymology 3

Generic use of PAM.

Noun

pam

  1. (US) Cooking spray.

Etymology 4

From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

  1. (historical, dated) Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).

Anagrams

  • APM, map, MAP, amp, pma, AMP, PMA, MPA, p.m.a.

Amanab

Noun

pam

  1. bone spoon

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • palma

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan palm, from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm and palma. Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish palmo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpam]

Noun

pam m (plural pams)

  1. span, handspan, an informal unit of measure based on a hand's width
  2. (historical) a traditional unit of length that is the 1 / 8 part of a cana; ~20 cm
    Holonym: cana

See also

  • forc

References

  • “pam”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “pam”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “pam” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “pam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑm/, [ˈpɑ̝m]
  • Rhymes: -ɑm
  • Syllabification(key): pam
  • Hyphenation(key): pam

Interjection

pam!

  1. bam!
  2. bang!

Galician

Noun

pam m (plural pans, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of pan

References

  • “pam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English pump.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pam/

Noun

pam

  1. pump

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pam/
  • Hyphenation: pam

Noun

pam

  1. abbreviation of pengamanan (“safing; securing; security”)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pump.

Noun

pam

  1. pump
  2. (anatomy) heart

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pam/

Noun

pam (nominative plural pams)

  1. palm, palm tree

Declension

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • paham (literary)

Etymology

pa (“what”) +‎ am (“for”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pam/

Adverb

pam

  1. why

Source: wiktionary.org