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Is trump a Scrabble word?

Yes, trump is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle Yes
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of trump?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.Examples: "Diamonds were declared trump(s)."; "And now her Heart with Pleasure jumps, She scarce remembers what is Trumps."

2. (card games) A playing card of that suit.Examples: "He played an even higher trump."

3. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.Examples: "VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe, And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was, I would lay a ſurer trumpe, Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke."figuratively

4. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.Examples: "[W]e permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON."; "All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon."; "Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off."archaiccolloquial

verb (English)

1. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.Examples: "He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped."; "He lost his money at whist after dinner, and actually trumped his partner’s highest spade."transitive

2. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.intransitive

3. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.Examples: "to trick or trump mankind"; "Wren, who had hoped to make his name with his discovery, immediately put De Corpore aside, hoping that in silence his failure would disappear. He was forced to think again about his future and resolved to seek new territory within the New Philosophy which he could call his own, rather than face the embarrassment of being trumped for a second time."Synonyms: outsmarttransitive

4. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.Examples: "Authors have been trumped upon us."datedtransitive

5. (transitive) To supersede.Examples: "In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues."transitive

6. (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.transitive

noun (English)

1. (archaic) A trumpet.Examples: "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible"; "Sound, sound the trump of fame,"archaic

2. (UK, colloquial, euphemistic) A fart.UKcolloquialeuphemistic

verb (English)

1. (intransitive, UK, colloquial, euphemistic) To fart.Examples: "And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed."; "Who trumped?"UKcolloquialeuphemisticintransitive

noun (English)

1. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.Synonyms: Jew's harpdated

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "trump"?

Scrabble
9 points
T1
R1
U1
M3
P3
Words With Friends
12 points
T1
R1
U2
M4
P4

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