Opossum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 87 anagrams from letters in opossum (moopssu).
1600-10, Americanism; Virginia Algonquian (E spelling) opassom, opussum, aposoum (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *wa˙p- white + *-aʔθemw- dog)
It had a gray coat, and a tapering muzzle like that of an opossum.
The opossum is famous for carrying its young in a pouch in front of the body.
The next day, to our great satisfaction, the opossum hove in sight.
On showing the opossum to Gerald, he said it was called the “crab-eater.”
A little higher in the scale stand the kangaroo and the opossum.
Among mammals, the best-known example is probably the opossum.
Their names mean "shooter of blow-pipe at coyote," "at opossum," and so forth.
We neither of us took warning from our misfortune in the opossum.
One of them fired at an opossum which they had, I concluded, driven out of its hole.
He had just before caught sight of an opossum, which had escaped him.