OSHAC is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. OSHAC 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept OSHAC?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSHAC is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSHAC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
oshacsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OSHAC scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OSHAC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does OSHAC mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyrare
The ammoniac plant, a Persian herb whose gum resin smells strongly of ammonia.
Oshac is an old name for the plant that yields gum ammoniac, a resin once burned as incense and used in traditional medicine for its sharp, ammonia-like smell. The plant grows wild in parts of Iran and Central Asia, and the resin is tapped from cuts in the stem much like myrrh or frankincense. The word is rare outside dictionaries of old herbal and pharmaceutical terms.
How OSHAC is used
Rare; found mainly in older botanical and pharmaceutical glossaries.
- Old herbals list oshac among the ammoniac-smelling plants of Persia.
- The resin of oshac was once burned as incense.
- Apothecaries stocked the gum of oshac for its sharp smell.
- Oshac grows wild across parts of Iran and Central Asia.
- The dictionary entry for oshac cites only old pharmaceutical sources.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSHAC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OSHAC
The 5 tiles of OSHAC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OSHAC
1 longer words begin with OSHAC.
Words with OSHAC inside
2 words contain OSHAC in the middle. Words that start with OSHAC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OSHAC
Common questions about OSHAC
- Is OSHAC valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and OSHAC is not in it.
- How many points is OSHAC worth?
- OSHAC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSHAC mean?
- The ammoniac plant, a Persian herb whose gum resin smells strongly of ammonia.
- What letters can be added to OSHAC?
- OSHAC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OSHAC:
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