MOSE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. MOSE 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MOSE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MOSE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MOSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MOSE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MOSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What stands out about MOSE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MOSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectrare
To become affected with glanders, a contagious disease of horses.
A horse that begins to mose develops the nasal discharge and swelling associated with glanders, a serious and once common ailment among working animals. The word appears in older farming and veterinary writing rather than in modern use.
How MOSE is used
Rare and dialectal; encountered chiefly in older agricultural texts.
- The stable hand feared the gelding had begun to mose.
- Horses that mose were kept apart from the rest of the herd.
- The old groom claimed he could tell a horse would mose before any doctor could.
- Few modern readers know what it means for an animal to mose.
- The farmer sold the colt rather than risk it might mose.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MOSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MOSE
The 4 tiles of MOSE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with MOSE
8 longer words begin with MOSE.
Words ending in MOSE
23 words end in MOSE. Useful as a back hook: play MOSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with MOSE inside
Showing 24 of 69 words that contain MOSE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MOSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MOSE
Common questions about MOSE
- Is MOSE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MOSE is not in it.
- How many points is MOSE worth?
- MOSE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MOSE mean?
- To become affected with glanders, a contagious disease of horses.
- What letters can be added to MOSE?
- MOSE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MOSE:
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