OSMOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OSMOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSMOUS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSMOUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSMOUS
No single letter turns OSMOUS into another word.
How OSMOUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OSMOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 886,944.
What does OSMOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Of or containing osmium in its lower valence state, as in certain osmium compounds.
Chemists reach for osmous the way they reach for ferrous when naming iron: it marks the member of a pair where the metal carries fewer positive charges than its more oxidized partner, which carries the ending -ic instead. An osmous salt, such as osmous chloride, reacts and dissolves differently from the matching osmic salt built from the same elements, so the ending tells a chemist at a glance which form is meant. The distinction only matters within inorganic chemistry, where osmium happens to form a family of compounds across several oxidation states. Outside chemistry textbooks and research papers, the word essentially never appears.
How OSMOUS is used
A narrow chemistry term, applied only to osmium compounds and almost never seen outside technical writing.
- The paper compared the properties of an osmous salt with its osmic counterpart.
- Osmous compounds contain osmium in a lower valence than osmic ones.
- The chemist labelled the lower-valence sample as osmous chloride.
- Few outside inorganic chemistry ever encounter the word osmous.
- The lecture explained why osmous and osmic compounds react so differently.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSMOUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OSMOUS
Common questions about OSMOUS
- Is OSMOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSMOUS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSMOUS worth?
- OSMOUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSMOUS mean?
- Of or containing osmium in its lower valence state, as in certain osmium compounds.
- What letters can be added to OSMOUS?
- No single letter can be added to OSMOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OSMOUS:
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