OSMOSE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OSMOSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSMOSE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSMOSE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSMOSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OSMOSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OSMOSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 295,648.
What does OSMOSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To pass through a membrane, or spread gradually, by the process of osmosis.
Water and other small molecules osmose across a semi-permeable membrane, moving from the side with more water to the side with less until the concentration evens out on both sides. Biologists use the verb for the literal movement of fluid through cell walls or membranes in plants and animals. Writers also borrow the word loosely to describe ideas, habits or a language slowly seeping into a person who is simply surrounded by them, without any deliberate teaching. In both senses the movement described is gradual and passive rather than forced.
How OSMOSE is used
Used literally in biology and chemistry for fluid movement, and loosely in general writing for ideas or influence spreading gradually.
- Water will osmose from the diluted side of the membrane to the concentrated side.
- Nutrients osmose into the root hairs of the growing plant.
- He claimed to have let the new language simply osmose during his years abroad.
- The dye began to osmose slowly through the damp paper.
- Office habits often osmose from senior staff to newcomers without a word being said.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSMOSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OSMOSE
2 longer words begin with OSMOSE.
Shorter words from the letters in OSMOSE
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Common questions about OSMOSE
- Is OSMOSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSMOSE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSMOSE worth?
- OSMOSE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSMOSE mean?
- To pass through a membrane, or spread gradually, by the process of osmosis.
- What letters can be added to OSMOSE?
- OSMOSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OSMOSE:
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