HOUSEROOM is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. HOUSEROOM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOUSEROOM?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOUSEROOM is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOUSEROOM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
houseroomsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOUSEROOM scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in HOUSEROOM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so HOUSEROOM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does HOUSEROOM mean in Scrabble?
noun
Space or accommodation inside a house, for people or belongings.
Houseroom is best known from the phrase would not give it houseroom, meaning to reject something firmly. Literally it is just space under a roof. Storage firms and landlords use it in the plain sense of room to keep things.
How HOUSEROOM is used
Houseroom is most often met in the idiom about refusing to give something houseroom.
- I wouldn't give that ugly lamp houseroom.
- They offered us houseroom until we found a flat.
- There was not enough houseroom for all the books.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOUSEROOM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOUSEROOM
1 longer words begin with HOUSEROOM.
Shorter words from the letters in HOUSEROOM
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Common questions about HOUSEROOM
- Is HOUSEROOM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOUSEROOM, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOUSEROOM worth?
- HOUSEROOM is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOUSEROOM mean?
- Space or accommodation inside a house, for people or belongings.
- What letters can be added to HOUSEROOM?
- HOUSEROOM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of HOUSEROOM:
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