Chums

Meaning

1. (noun) A friend; a pal. “I ran into an old chum from school the other day.”
2. (noun) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
3. (verb) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
4. (verb) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
5. (verb) To make friends; to socialize.
6. (verb) To accompany. “I'll chum you down to the shops.”
7. (verb) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
8. (noun) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.

Letter breakdown

• Chums contains 5 letters: 1 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
• It uses 5 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 1.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 12.

Words from these letters

• chum
• cums
• hums
• much
• mush
• scum
• such
• cum
• hum
• sum

Connected words

Other 5-letter words

• abaci
• aback
• abaft
• abase
• abash
• abate
• abbey
• abbot
• abeam
• abets
• abhor
• abide
• abler
• abode
• abort
• about
• above
• abuse

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Words starting with CHU

• chubbier
• chubbiest
• chubbiness
• chubby
• chuck
• chucked
• chuckhole
• chuckholes
• chucking
• chuckle
• chuckled
• chuckles
• chuckling
• chucks
• chug
• chugged
• chugging
• chugs

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Words ending with UMS

• addendums
• albums
• alluviums
• alums
• aquariums
• arboretums
• asylums
• atriums
• auditoriums
• bums
• cambiums
• candelabrums
• cerebellums
• cerebrums
• chrysanthemums
• coliseums
• colloquiums
• compendiums

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