LOSEL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. LOSEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LOSEL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LOSEL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOSEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
loselsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LOSEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOSEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What stands out about LOSEL
- LOSEL 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 LOSEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
A worthless, good-for-nothing person; a lazy scoundrel or wastrel.
Writers of earlier centuries used losel as a sharp insult for someone who wasted their life, money or talent through idleness or bad behavior, much as wastrel or ne'er-do-well are used today. The word appears in Renaissance and later literary English, including in Edmund Spenser's poetry, but it dropped out of everyday speech long ago. Modern readers meet losel almost exclusively in older texts or in deliberately old-fashioned writing.
How LOSEL is used
Archaic and literary; encountered in older poetry and prose rather than in modern conversation.
- The old ballad calls the drunken heir a common losel.
- Spenser's poem brands the idle knight a losel.
- The judge in the play scolds the losel for squandering his inheritance.
- She used losel as a deliberately archaic insult in her historical novel.
- No honest work could be expected from such a losel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOSEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LOSEL
1 longer words begin with LOSEL.
Words with LOSEL inside
3 words contain LOSEL in the middle. Words that start with LOSEL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LOSEL
Common questions about LOSEL
- Is LOSEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LOSEL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LOSEL worth?
- LOSEL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOSEL mean?
- A worthless, good-for-nothing person; a lazy scoundrel or wastrel.
- What letters can be added to LOSEL?
- LOSEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOSEL:
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