FOSSE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FOSSE 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 FOSSE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FOSSE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FOSSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FOSSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FOSSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does FOSSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A long, narrow ditch or trench, especially one dug around a fort, castle, or camp as a defensive barrier.
Builders of ancient and medieval fortifications often dug a fosse just outside the walls, sometimes filling it with water to form a moat that slowed any approaching attacker. Roman military camps regularly included a fosse alongside an earthen rampart, and archaeologists still use the traces of a fosse to map the outline of a lost fortification. Beyond fortifications, fosse can also describe any long excavated channel, such as one dug for drainage around a field or building. The word survives in English mainly in historical and archaeological writing rather than everyday speech.
How FOSSE is used
Chiefly historical and archaeological, describing defensive or drainage ditches around ancient sites.
- Archaeologists traced the outline of the fort by its filled-in fosse.
- Rainwater collected in the fosse surrounding the old camp.
- Workers had to cross the fosse before scaling the castle wall.
- The Roman legion dug a fosse around their overnight camp.
- A shallow fosse still marks where the palisade once stood.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FOSSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FOSSE
4 longer words begin with FOSSE.
Shorter words from the letters in FOSSE
Common questions about FOSSE
- Is FOSSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FOSSE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FOSSE worth?
- FOSSE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FOSSE mean?
- A long, narrow ditch or trench, especially one dug around a fort, castle, or camp as a defensive barrier.
- What letters can be added to FOSSE?
- FOSSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FOSSE:
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