HOOSH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. HOOSH 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 HOOSH?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOOSH is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOOSH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How HOOSH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOOSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 672,210.
What stands out about HOOSH
- HOOSH begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HOOSH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalinformal
A thick stew of pemmican, biscuit and fat once eaten by polar explorers on sledge journeys.
Hoosh was the staple hot meal of early Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, boiled up over a small stove from pemmican, crushed biscuit and melted snow to give exhausted travelers quick fuel. Diaries from expeditions such as Shackleton's and Scott's describe hoosh as both a comfort and a necessity after long days hauling sledges across the ice.
How HOOSH is used
Historical term tied to polar exploration, occasionally used loosely for any thick camp stew.
- The men warmed themselves with a bowl of hoosh each night.
- Diaries from the expedition mention hoosh after every long march.
- Cooking hoosh over the small stove took barely ten minutes.
- They rationed the pemmican carefully to keep the hoosh going.
- Nothing tasted better than hot hoosh at the end of a hard day.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOOSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOOSH
3 longer words begin with HOOSH.
Words ending in HOOSH
3 words end in HOOSH. Useful as a back hook: play HOOSH onto a word already on the board.
Words with HOOSH inside
9 words contain HOOSH in the middle. Words that start with HOOSH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOOSH
Common questions about HOOSH
- Is HOOSH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HOOSH is not in it.
- How many points is HOOSH worth?
- HOOSH is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOOSH mean?
- A thick stew of pemmican, biscuit and fat once eaten by polar explorers on sledge journeys.
- What letters can be added to HOOSH?
- HOOSH takes 3 hooks: 3 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOOSH:
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