Definitions for Tupelo

Tupelo tu·pe·lo

Spelling: [too-puh-loh, tyoo-]
IPA: /ˈtu pəˌloʊ, ˈtyu-/

Tupelo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in Tupelo (eloptu).

Definitions for Tupelo

noun

  1. any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
  2. the soft, light wood of these trees.
  3. a city in NE Mississippi.

Origin of Tupelo

1720-30, Americanism; perhaps Creek *’topilwa literally, swamp tree (equivalent to íto tree + opílwa swamp)

Examples for Tupelo

Raymond promptly stole it from a church parking lot during Wednesday night prayer meeting and sold it to a chop shop near tupelo.

In the early 2000s, Dutschke joined a tupelo studio called Kinetic Kick owned by Noel McMichael.

It is not, however, as purely a swamp tree as tupelo and cypress.

The range of black gum is much more extensive than that of tupelo.

The enemy were at tupelo, Miss., forty-nine miles below Corinth.

“tupelo is a very small town in the middle of the Bible Belt,” McMichael said.

There are three varieties of tents—sponge, laminaria, and tupelo.

tupelo gum is now used in slack cooperage, principally for heading.

What the hell, he already had enough judgments against him to pave the road to tupelo.

Republican Roger Wicker of tupelo has now cruised easily to re-election to a full term in the US Senate.

Word Value for Tupelo
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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