FLOSH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. FLOSH 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FLOSH?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLOSH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLOSH
No single letter turns FLOSH into another word.
How FLOSH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLOSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 147,046.
What does FLOSH mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A soft, marshy hollow, or a hopper-shaped trough used to wash crushed ore.
A flosh names two separate things in mining districts: a wet, boggy patch of ground, and, in ore processing, the sloping box that catches crushed rock while water separates the metal from waste. Both uses of flosh come from older dialect speech and are now confined to local and technical glossaries.
How FLOSH is used
Regional and mining dialect, rarely met outside glossaries of old workings.
- Cattle avoided the flosh at the bottom of the field.
- Workers shovelled crushed ore into the flosh for washing.
- The old mine plan marked a flosh near the shaft entrance.
- Rain had turned the low pasture into a proper flosh.
- A miner's glossary lists flosh alongside other trough names.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLOSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FLOSH
1 longer words begin with FLOSH.
Shorter words from the letters in FLOSH
Common questions about FLOSH
- Is FLOSH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FLOSH is not in it.
- How many points is FLOSH worth?
- FLOSH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLOSH mean?
- A soft, marshy hollow, or a hopper-shaped trough used to wash crushed ore.
- What letters can be added to FLOSH?
- No single letter can be added to FLOSH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLOSH:
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