BOUSE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BOUSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOUSE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOUSE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOUSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOUSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOUSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 24,508.
What does BOUSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
nautical
To haul or hoist something into place by pulling on a rope that runs through a block or tackle.
Sailors bouse on a line when raising an anchor, tightening rigging, or dragging heavy gear across a deck, using the mechanical advantage of a pulley system. The term appears often in older nautical manuals describing manual work aboard sailing ships before winches and engines took over such tasks. Related expressions such as bouse away or bouse taut instructed a crew to keep pulling until a rope or cable was fully tight. Some dictionaries list bouse as a variant spelling of the newer word bowse, both referring to the same hauling action at sea.
How BOUSE is used
A specialized nautical term, largely confined to sailing manuals and historical accounts of shipboard work.
- The crew had to bouse the anchor chain hand over hand.
- Sailors would bouse on the line until the sail sat perfectly taut.
- The bosun ordered the men to bouse away at the heavy cable.
- Old sailing manuals describe exactly how to bouse a jammed rope free.
- They boused the crate up the side of the ship using a simple pulley.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOUSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOUSE
2 longer words begin with BOUSE.
Shorter words from the letters in BOUSE
Common questions about BOUSE
- Is BOUSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOUSE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOUSE worth?
- BOUSE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOUSE mean?
- To haul or hoist something into place by pulling on a rope that runs through a block or tackle.
- What letters can be added to BOUSE?
- BOUSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOUSE:
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