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Synonyms for wampum

Most common

lettuce loot bootle gelt seawan hiaqua beads cowrie

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Bread — money

money, currency, gelt, lucre, cabbage, moolah, sugar, kale, loot, lettuce, bootle, pelf, bread slang US, dinero slang, dough slang, coin slang, brass slang, scratch slang US, jack slang US AU, blunt dated UK, swag slang, lolly slang

2. Porcelain — small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together…

peak, seawan, hiaqua, porcelain dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native American peoples of eastern North America for various purposes including as jewellery and money, and for record-keeping; (countable, archaic) one such bead.

  2. n. 2

    Money.

Related words

Phrases
wampum snake
Other spellings
wompam

Forms

Plural
wampums → moneys, currencies, gelts, cabbages…

Example sentences

  • lettuce What's the difference between cabbage and lettuce?
  • loot The thieves divided their loot among themselves.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
wampumrising
lettucesteady
lootrising
bootlesteady
geltsteady
seawansteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
jack1, peak1, coin1, loot1, kale1, swag, gelt, pelf
5 letters
money2, sugar2, bread1, brass1, dough1, blunt1, beads1, lolly2, lucre
6 letters
moolah, dinero, bootle, cowrie, seawan, hiaqua
7 letters
scratch1, lettuce2, cabbage2
8 letters
currency3
9 letters
porcelain3
10 letters
wampumpeag

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (money2 = 2 syllables).