ODSO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. ODSO 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ODSO?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ODSO is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ODSO
Front hooks — 1
godsoBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ODSO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ODSO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,753.
What does ODSO mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaic
An old exclamation of surprise, a mild oath once used much like "goodness me" or "well I never".
Odso belongs to a family of euphemistic oaths, such as odsbodikins and odzooks, that softened an invocation of God's name into a harmless-sounding syllable. Speakers used it to show sudden surprise, and it survives now only in old plays, novels and dialogue meant to sound quaint or old-fashioned.
How ODSO is used
Archaic; found in period drama and older fiction, never in ordinary modern speech.
- Odso! cried the old squire when he saw the bill.
- The playwright gave the comic servant the exclamation odso to mark him as old-fashioned.
- Odso, said the innkeeper, I never expected you back so soon.
- The novel's antiquarian style leans on words like odso for flavour.
- He muttered odso under his breath at the unexpected news.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ODSO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ODSO
The 4 tiles of ODSO in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in ODSO
1 words end in ODSO. Useful as a back hook: play ODSO onto a word already on the board.
Words with ODSO inside
17 words contain ODSO in the middle. Words that start with ODSO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ODSO
Common questions about ODSO
- Is ODSO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ODSO is not in it.
- How many points is ODSO worth?
- ODSO is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ODSO mean?
- An old exclamation of surprise, a mild oath once used much like "goodness me" or "well I never".
- What letters can be added to ODSO?
- ODSO takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ODSO:
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