7 Letters
4 Consonants
3 Vowels
3 Syllables
Types Of Speech
You can use opossum as a noun in a sentence.
About Opossum
A 3 syllables noun and 7 letters with the letters m, o, p, s, and u, 4 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter s. Opossum starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters o, op, opo, opos, oposs, and the ending characters are m, um, sum, ssum, ossum, . Opossum is also a double consonant (ss) word. View the double consonant words list.
Definition
Nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
Origin/Roots
Powhatan
School Grade
Opossum is set as a grade seven word that starts with o, ends with m, 3 syllables, 3 vowels and 7 letters.
Scrabble
Is opossum a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
Pig Latin
Opossum in Pig Latin is said as "opossumay or opossumway".
Unigram
o | p | o | s | s | u | m
Bigram
op | po | os | ss | su | um
Trigram
opo | pos | oss | ssu | sum
Quadrigram
opos | poss | ossu | ssum
Word Gram
Noun Examples
nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

Synonyms (Cognitive Synonyms) For "Opossum"

There are 525 synonyms available. These are cognitive relationship words which is to say they have a similar meaning, mean the same thing, or have close definition and relationship to opossum.

SynonymDefinition
Aardvarknocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites
sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
Aardwolfstriped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects
Acediaapathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Acinonyx Jubatus
Ailurus Fulgens
Alaskan Brown Bear
Alces Alces
Alopex Lagopus
Alpacadomesticated llama with long silky fleece
believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco
American Antelope

View all cognitive synonyms for Opossum

Anagrams

There are 1 anagrams from opossum.

Anagram Definition
Opossumnocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

View English words with the unique letters used in opossum. Words With The Letters Mopsu

Hypernyms

Opossum has 2 hypernyms.

Word Definition
Marsupialmammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
Pouched Mammal

Hyponyms

There are 4 hyponyms for opossum

Word Definition
Common Opossum
Crab Eating Opossum
Didelphis Marsupialis
Didelphis Virginiana

Meronyms

There are 2 member direct meronyms for the word opossum

Word Definition
Didelphidaeopossums
Family Didelphidae

The word games Words With Friends, 4pics1Word, Word Chums, and Jumble which is by far one of the most successful of the word games. Jumble was created in 1954 - below, you will find the most unscrambled letters for each descramble word game that others have solved or decoded to make the word opossum.

Is opossum a scrabble word or can you use opossum in Words With Friends? The probability of getting this word in scrabble is 1 out of every 5955193 games and in Words With Friends it's 1 out of every 4741817 games. This 7 letter 11 point scrabble word can be rearranged 1,260 ways. What other words can be made with the letters m, o, p, s, and u? There's 28 with 9 letters or less with the letters m, o, p, s, and u. Here is a list of 25 to try to get you more points.

WordScrabbleWords With FriendsWord Chums4Pics1WordJumble
Amphioxus (9 letters) 23 +12 25 +11 amphioxus
Musophaga (9 letters) 17 +6 20 +6 aaghmopsu
Opossum (7 letters) 11 14 opossum
Possum (6 letters) 10 13 mopssu
Eumops (6 letters) 10 13 eumops
Apodemus (8 letters) 13 +2 16 +2 mousepad
Myopus (6 letters) 13 +2 15 +1 myopus
Pomolobus (9 letters) 15 +4 20 +6 blmooopsu
Lamphouse (9 letters) 16 +5 19 +5 lamphouse
Mousepad (8 letters) 13 +2 16 +2 mousepad
Omphalus (8 letters) 15 +4 18 +4 omphalus
Populism (8 letters) 14 +3 19 +5 populism
Pop Music (9 letters)
Symposium (9 letters) 18 +7 21 +7 symposium
Olympus (7 letters) 14 +3 17 +3 olympus
Gossypium (9 letters) 17 +6 20 +6 gimopssuy
Symplocus (9 letters) 18 +7 22 +8 clmopssuy
Spumous (7 letters) 11 15 +1 mopssuu
Plumose (7 letters) 11 15 +1 plumose
Impious (7 letters) 11 14 iimopsu
Pompous (7 letters) 13 +2 17 +3 pompous
Apogamous (9 letters) 14 +3 18 +4 apogamous
Plumbous (8 letters) 14 +3 20 +6 blmopsuu
Pompously (9 letters) 18 +7 22 +8 lmooppsuy
Impiously (9 letters) 16 +5 19 +5 iilmopsuy





     

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