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Is stump a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word stump is a Scrabble US word. The word stump is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is stump a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word stump is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

STUMP,TUMPS,

4-letter words (10 found)

MUST,MUTS,PUTS,SMUT,STUM,SUMP,TUMP,TUMS,TUPS,UMPS,

3-letter words (13 found)

MUS,MUT,PST,PUS,PUT,SUM,SUP,TUM,TUP,UMP,UMS,UPS,UTS,

2-letter words (6 found)

MU,ST,UM,UP,US,UT,

You can make 31 words from stump according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of stump

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Definitions and meaning of stump

stump

Etymology

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”), from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʌmp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

stump (plural stumps)

  1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  2. (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  3. (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
  4. (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
  5. (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
  6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  7. (slang, humorous) A leg.
  8. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
  9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
  3. (intransitive) To campaign.
    Synonym: campaign
  4. (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
  5. (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
  6. (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
  7. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
  8. (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
  9. (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Conjugation

Related terms

  • stumped

Translations

See also

  • stump up

Further reading

  • “stump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “stump”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “stump”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • tumps

Danish

Adjective

stump (neuter stumpt, plural and definite singular attributive stumpe, comparative stumpere, superlative (predicative) stumpest, superlative (attributive) stumpeste)

  1. blunt
    en stump genstand
    a blunt instrument
  2. (geometry) obtuse

Derived terms

  • (blunt): stump genstand
  • (obtuse): stump trekant, stump vinkel, stumpvinklet

Noun

stump c (singular definite stumpen, plural indefinite stumper)

  1. stump, piece

Declension

Further reading

  • “stump” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “stump” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German stumpf, from late Old High German stumph, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtump/

Adjective

stump

  1. dull, blunt

Further reading

  • Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

Noun

stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumper, definite plural stumpene)

  1. a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
  2. (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

Derived terms

  • gatestump

References

  • “stump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

Noun

stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumpar, definite plural stumpane)

  1. a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
  2. (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

Derived terms

  • gatestump

References

  • “stump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stumper, from Old Norse stumpr, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

Noun

stump c

  1. a stump (something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, like for example as a very short pencil or what is left of a cut-off finger)

Declension

Derived terms

  • fimp

References

  • bet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • bet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • bet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org