FOSSA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FOSSA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FOSSA?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOSSA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOSSA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FOSSA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FOSSA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does FOSSA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologytechnical
A shallow pit, hollow, or depression in a surface, especially an anatomical one such as a groove in bone; also a slender, catlike carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar.
In anatomy, a fossa marks a natural indentation in bone or tissue, such as the hollow at the temple or the groove that guides a joint, and doctors use the word to pinpoint exact locations during examinations or surgery. Separately, the fossa is Madagascar's largest native carnivore, a reddish-brown mammal related to civets and mongooses that hunts lemurs in the island's forests despite looking somewhat like a small cougar. Both senses trace back to the same Latin root meaning a ditch or pit, though the animal's name likely echoes the shape of its slender, low-slung body. Naturalists studying Madagascar's unique wildlife regard the fossa as a striking example of the island's isolated evolution.
How FOSSA is used
Chiefly technical in the anatomical sense; the animal sense appears in general nature writing and documentaries.
- The surgeon located the fossa just below the joint.
- A fossa slipped silently through the treetops after a lemur.
- The textbook diagram labeled the temporal fossa of the skull.
- Zoo visitors were surprised to learn the fossa is not a cat.
- Scar tissue had partly filled the shallow fossa on the bone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOSSA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FOSSA
The 5 tiles of FOSSA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FOSSA
3 longer words begin with FOSSA.
Shorter words from the letters in FOSSA
Common questions about FOSSA
- Is FOSSA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOSSA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOSSA worth?
- FOSSA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOSSA mean?
- A shallow pit, hollow, or depression in a surface, especially an anatomical one such as a groove in bone; also a slender, catlike carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar.
- What letters can be added to FOSSA?
- FOSSA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FOSSA:
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