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Is jump a Scrabble word?

Yes, jump is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 15 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of jump?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.Examples: "The boy jumped over a fence."; "Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high."; "Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square."Synonyms: leap, springintransitive

2. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.Examples: "She is going to jump from the diving board."Synonyms: jump down, jump offintransitive

3. (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.Examples: "to jump a stream"transitive

4. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.Synonyms: skydiveintransitive

5. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.Examples: "The sudden sharp sound made me jump."Synonyms: flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitchintransitive

6. (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.Examples: "Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits."figurativelyintransitive

noun (English)

1. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

2. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

3. (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.Examples: "Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second."

4. (with on) An early start or an advantage.Examples: "He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before."; "Their research department gave them the jump on the competition."with-on

5. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.

6. (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.

adv (English)

1. (obsolete) Exactly; preciselyExamples: "Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch."Synonyms: accurately, just, slap bang, exactlynot-comparableobsolete

adj (English)

1. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.Examples: "jump names"; "Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch"obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "jump"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "jump"?

Scrabble
15 points
J8
U1
M3
P3
Words With Friends
20 points
J10
U2
M4
P4

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