COSS is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. COSS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COSS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COSS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COSS
No single letter turns COSS into another word.
How COSS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in COSS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does COSS mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalIndian English
A traditional unit of distance used in India, roughly one and a half to two English miles.
Coss entered English through contact with Persian and Hindi administrative usage during the era of British rule on the subcontinent, when officials needed a term for the local road measure travellers already used. Unlike a mile or a kilometre, coss was never fixed to one exact length, so ten coss in one province could feel noticeably longer than ten coss somewhere else. Metric highway signs across South Asia have since replaced it, leaving coss mostly in older gazetteers and travel writing.
How COSS is used
A historical unit no longer used for official measurement; encountered mainly in older accounts of India.
- The village lay about three coss from the nearest town.
- Travellers reckoned the distance in coss rather than miles.
- Old records describe the journey as covering twelve coss.
- A coss varies slightly from one region of India to another.
- The merchant estimated the road to be five coss long.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COSS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COSS
The 4 tiles of COSS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with COSS
11 longer words begin with COSS.
Words with COSS inside
5 words contain COSS in the middle. Words that start with COSS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COSS
Common questions about COSS
- Is COSS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COSS, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COSS worth?
- COSS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COSS mean?
- A traditional unit of distance used in India, roughly one and a half to two English miles.
- What letters can be added to COSS?
- No single letter can be added to COSS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of COSS:
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