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10 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency
originBorrowed from Massachusett wampompeage (“string of white beads used as money”), from wamp, wap, wompi (“white”) + *umpe (“string”) + -ag (plural suffix). Compare peag (“string of white beads used as money”), also a clipping of wampumpeag. Cognates Penobscot wʌ̃pʌ̃pəyak (singular wʌ̃pʌ̃pi)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- wampum 15
- papaw 12
- pampa 11
- gamma 10
- gamme 10
- gemma 10
- gumma 10
- magma 10
- gawp 10
- mump 10
- pump 10
- mapau 9