CUSSO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CUSSO 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 CUSSO?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUSSO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUSSO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cussosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUSSO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CUSSO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does CUSSO mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyrare
An African tree whose dried, unopened flowers have long been used in traditional medicine as a remedy for expelling intestinal worms.
Growing in the highlands of Ethiopia and nearby regions, cusso produces clusters of small flowers that are picked before they open and dried for use as a folk treatment against tapeworms and other intestinal parasites. The tree belongs to the rose family, and its common name is also spelled kousso or kusso in different sources, all referring to the same plant and the same traditional remedy. Modern medicine has largely replaced cusso with more reliable treatments, but the plant is still mentioned in botanical and historical accounts of traditional African medicine.
How CUSSO is used
A specialized botanical term for an African medicinal tree, encountered mainly in botany texts and accounts of traditional medicine.
- The traveler described the local use of cusso against parasites.
- Botanists catalogued cusso among the trees of the highland forest.
- Dried cusso flowers were once sold in local markets as medicine.
- The book explained how cusso was prepared as a traditional remedy.
- Cusso grows widely in the mountains of the region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUSSO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUSSO
1 longer words begin with CUSSO.
Words with CUSSO inside
2 words contain CUSSO in the middle. Words that start with CUSSO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CUSSO
Common questions about CUSSO
- Is CUSSO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUSSO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUSSO worth?
- CUSSO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUSSO mean?
- An African tree whose dried, unopened flowers have long been used in traditional medicine as a remedy for expelling intestinal worms.
- What letters can be added to CUSSO?
- CUSSO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CUSSO:
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