COSE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. COSE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept COSE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COSE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COSE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in COSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What stands out about COSE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does COSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialect
To make oneself warm and comfortable; to settle in snugly.
To cose is to settle into a warm, comfortable spot, often by a fire or under a blanket, with the sense of deliberately making oneself snug rather than simply being warm by chance. The word survives mainly in dialect speech and older regional writing rather than in everyday standard English.
How COSE is used
Chiefly dialect and rare in standard modern writing.
- On cold evenings she liked to cose by the fire with a blanket.
- The cat chose a warm spot to cose in beside the stove.
- They like to cose together under one quilt when the wind howls outside.
- He tends to cose in his armchair with a book on rainy afternoons.
- The children cose close to their mother, wrapped in the same shawl.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COSE
The 4 tiles of COSE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with COSE
17 longer words begin with COSE.
Words ending in COSE
22 words end in COSE. Useful as a back hook: play COSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with COSE inside
Showing 24 of 38 words that contain COSE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with COSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COSE
Common questions about COSE
- Is COSE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and COSE is not in it.
- How many points is COSE worth?
- COSE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COSE mean?
- To make oneself warm and comfortable; to settle in snugly.
- What letters can be added to COSE?
- COSE takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of COSE:
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