GOSSAMERY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. GOSSAMERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GOSSAMERY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GOSSAMERY is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GOSSAMERY
No single letter turns GOSSAMERY into another word.
How GOSSAMERY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in GOSSAMERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GOSSAMERY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does GOSSAMERY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Light, delicate and thin like fine cobweb.
Gossamery suits veils, wings and mist, anything so fine it seems barely there. It is a more poetic variant than the plain adjective gossamer.
How GOSSAMERY is used
Literary; used in descriptive writing about delicate fabrics and light.
- The bride wore a gossamery veil.
- Dragonflies have gossamery wings.
- A gossamery mist hung over the lake at dawn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GOSSAMERY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GOSSAMERY
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Common questions about GOSSAMERY
- Is GOSSAMERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GOSSAMERY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GOSSAMERY worth?
- GOSSAMERY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GOSSAMERY mean?
- Light, delicate and thin like fine cobweb.
- What letters can be added to GOSSAMERY?
- No single letter can be added to GOSSAMERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of GOSSAMERY:
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