gum (3 letters)
gum
6
- Length
- 3 letters
- Scrabble score
- 6 points
- Frequency
- Rare
- Pronunciation
- GUHM
What it means
- verb — cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- verb — grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- verb — become sticky
- verb — exude or form gum
- noun — a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- noun — the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- noun — any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- noun — cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- noun — wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- noun — any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum