Jetsam

Meaning

1. (noun) Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress “There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.”
2. (noun) (by extension) discarded odds and ends “They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.”

Letter breakdown

• Jetsam contains 6 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
• It uses 6 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 15.

Words from these letters

• mates
• meats
• steam
• tames
• teams
• east
• eats
• jams
• jest
• jets
• mast
• mate
• mats
• meat
• mesa
• meta
• same
• sate
• seam
• seat
• stem
• tame
• tams
• team
• teas
• amt
• ate
• eat
• ems
• est
• eta
• jam
• jet
• mas
• mat
• mes
• met
• sat
• sea
• set
• tam
• tea

Connected words

Other 6-letter words

• abacus
• abased
• abases
• abated
• abates
• abbess
• abbeys
• abbots
• abbrev
• abduct
• abhors
• abided
• abides
• abject
• abjure
• ablaze
• ablest
• abloom

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Words starting with JET

• jet
• jets
• jetted
• jetties
• jetting
• jettison
• jettisoned
• jettisoning
• jettisons
• jetty

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Words ending with SAM

• balsam
• flotsam

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