Definitions for flotsam

flotsam flot·sam

Spelling: [flot-suh m]
IPA: /ˈflɒt səm/

Flotsam is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in flotsam (aflmost).

Definitions for flotsam

noun

  1. the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
  2. material or refuse floating on water.
  3. useless or unimportant items; odds and ends.
  4. a vagrant, penniless population:

Origin of flotsam

1600-10; Anglo-French floteson, derivative of floter to float Old English flotian

Examples for flotsam

The rest were in character with Grants nearer companions—just flotsam.

Am I to drift always about the world, a mere piece of flotsam on Swansea tide?

A scuttle-butt was torn from its lashings and went by the board, and other flotsam followed it.

There were bits of flotsam, including coconuts that had washed in.

This is my estate, and all flotsam and jetsam as is washed ashore is mine.

Once the sand was plowed back onto the beaches, volunteers scoured it for any flotsam that got through the sifting machines.

They will find the courage to clear the land of the flotsam and cultivate it anew.

Among the torn bodies the flotsam of war lay unheeded in the mud.

The flotsam and jetsam are mere shreds and fragments of wasted lives.

Logs, planks, and the other flotsam of a freshet moved on in the van of the flood.

Word Value for flotsam
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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