GLOSSA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. GLOSSA 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 GLOSSA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GLOSSA is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GLOSSA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GLOSSA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GLOSSA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does GLOSSA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The tongue, or a tongue-like structure, especially the slender lobe at the tip of an insect's mouthparts used to gather food.
In bees the glossa is a long, hairy, tube-like lobe that laps up nectar much as a tongue laps liquid, and entomologists use the word specifically for this part of the insect mouth. The term comes from the Greek word for tongue, the same root that gives English glossary, a list explaining unfamiliar words. Outside entomology, older anatomical writing sometimes used glossa simply to mean the human tongue, though that broader use is now uncommon. Because the shape and length of the glossa differ between species, it is often studied to work out which flowers a particular bee or fly can feed from.
How GLOSSA is used
A technical term used mainly in entomology to describe the tongue-like part of an insect's mouth.
- Under the microscope, the bee's glossa looked like a slender hairy tube.
- Researchers measured the length of the glossa in several bumblebee species.
- A longer glossa lets some bees reach nectar deep inside tubular flowers.
- The textbook diagram labels the glossa at the tip of the proboscis.
- Older texts sometimes used glossa simply to mean the human tongue.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GLOSSA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GLOSSA
11 longer words begin with GLOSSA.
Shorter words from the letters in GLOSSA
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Common questions about GLOSSA
- Is GLOSSA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GLOSSA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GLOSSA worth?
- GLOSSA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GLOSSA mean?
- The tongue, or a tongue-like structure, especially the slender lobe at the tip of an insect's mouthparts used to gather food.
- What letters can be added to GLOSSA?
- GLOSSA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GLOSSA:
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