DOST is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. DOST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOST?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOST is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOST
No single letter turns DOST into another word.
How DOST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DOST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What stands out about DOST
- 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 DOST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To do, in the old form that follows thou, as in what dost thou want.
Dost belongs to the same set as art, hast and wilt, and it went out of ordinary English along with the pronoun it attaches to. What kept it in circulation is one translation of the Bible and a few centuries of verse written in imitation of it, so the word now reads as scripture even when the sentence is about something else entirely.
How DOST is used
Used only with thou — thou dost. Archaic outside quotation and deliberate imitation.
- What dost thou want of me at this hour?
- The line begins thou dost and the rest is lost.
- He wrote dost and hast to make the poem sound older.
- Dost survives in hymns that nobody has revised.
- A single dost tells you the century somebody is imitating.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DOST
The 4 tiles of DOST in a different order — 2 found.
Words with DOST inside
16 words contain DOST in the middle. Words that start with DOST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOST
Common questions about DOST
- Is DOST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOST, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOST worth?
- DOST is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOST mean?
- To do, in the old form that follows thou, as in what dost thou want.
- What letters can be added to DOST?
- No single letter can be added to DOST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DOST:
Open DOST in the Word Finder