OSE is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. OSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSE?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSE is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 11 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OSE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 421.
What does OSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A long ridge of gravel left behind by a glacier.
Ose is the Swedish term for what English geology usually calls an esker, and both words sit in the dictionaries. The ridges mark where a river ran beneath the ice, which is why they wander across a landscape in curves.
How OSE is used
Countable: an ose, two oses. Chiefly geology.
- An ose marks where a river ran under the ice.
- The word ose is Swedish and esker is Irish.
- Two oses run parallel for about a mile.
- An ose curves because the river beneath the ice did.
- Gravel from an ose is the best in the county.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OSE
The 3 tiles of OSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OSE
3 longer words begin with OSE.
Words ending in OSE
Showing 24 of 393 words that end in OSE. Useful as a back hook: play OSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with OSE inside
Showing 24 of 1325 words that contain OSE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OSE
Common questions about OSE
- Is OSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSE, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSE worth?
- OSE is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSE mean?
- A long ridge of gravel left behind by a glacier.
- What letters can be added to OSE?
- OSE takes 11 hooks: 10 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OSE:
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