tumpline
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 8
Definition of tumpline
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
-
A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just above the forehead.
“The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From tump + line, "tump" is an apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
Words you can make from tumpline
165 playable · top: PINETUM (11 pts)
Best play pinetum 11 points6-letter words
19 words5-letter words
26 words- IMPEL 9 pts
- PLUME 9 pts
- TEMPI 9 pts
- ILEUM 7 pts
- INEPT 7 pts
- INPUT 7 pts
- LETUP 7 pts
- LIMEN 7 pts
- LINUM 7 pts
- LUMEN 7 pts
- LUPIN 7 pts
- MULIE 7 pts
- TULIP 7 pts
- UNMET 7 pts
- UPLIT 7 pts
- ELINT 5 pts
- INLET 5 pts
- INTEL 5 pts
- LUNET 5 pts
- TUILE 5 pts
- UNITE 5 pts
- UNLET 5 pts
- UNLIT 5 pts
- UNTIE 5 pts
- UNTIL 5 pts
- UTILE 5 pts
4-letter words
53 words- LIMP 8 pts
- LUMP 8 pts
- PLUM 8 pts
- TEMP 8 pts
- TUMP 8 pts
- EMIT 6 pts
- ITEM 6 pts
- LEPT 6 pts
- LIME 6 pts
- LIMN 6 pts
- LIPE 6 pts
- MELT 6 pts
- MENU 6 pts
- MIEN 6 pts
- MILE 6 pts
- MILT 6 pts
- MINE 6 pts
- MINT 6 pts
- MITE 6 pts
- MULE 6 pts
- MUNI 6 pts
- MUTE 6 pts
- NEUM 6 pts
- PEIN 6 pts
- PELT 6 pts
- PENT 6 pts
- PILE 6 pts
- PINE 6 pts
- PINT 6 pts
- PLIE 6 pts
- PTUI 6 pts
- PULE 6 pts
- PULI 6 pts
- PUNT 6 pts
- TIME 6 pts
- ETUI 4 pts
- LENT 4 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LIEU 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LINT 4 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- LITU 4 pts
- LUNE 4 pts
- LUNT 4 pts
- LUTE 4 pts
- NITE 4 pts
- TEIN 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TINE 4 pts
- TULE 4 pts
- TUNE 4 pts
- UNIT 4 pts
3-letter words
46 words- IMP 7 pts
- UMP 7 pts
- ELM 5 pts
- EMU 5 pts
- LIP 5 pts
- LUM 5 pts
- MEL 5 pts
- MEN 5 pts
- MET 5 pts
- MIL 5 pts
- MUN 5 pts
- MUT 5 pts
- NIM 5 pts
- NIP 5 pts
- PEN 5 pts
- PET 5 pts
- PIE 5 pts
- PIN 5 pts
- PIT 5 pts
- PIU 5 pts
- PUL 5 pts
- PUN 5 pts
- PUT 5 pts
- TIP 5 pts
- TUM 5 pts
- TUP 5 pts
- LEI 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- LEU 3 pts
- LIE 3 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LIT 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- NIT 3 pts
- NUT 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIL 3 pts
- TIN 3 pts
- TUI 3 pts
- TUN 3 pts
- UNI 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
20 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
A single letter you can add to tumpline to make another valid word.
Back
Find your best play with tumpline
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes tumpline, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.