OSSIFY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. OSSIFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSSIFY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSSIFY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSSIFY
No single letter turns OSSIFY into another word.
How OSSIFY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OSSIFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 689,845.
What does OSSIFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
To turn into bone, or to become rigid and unable to change.
In the body, soft cartilage may ossify as a child grows, and the skeleton gradually hardens. The figurative sense is more common in everyday writing: an organisation, habit or opinion that ossifies has set into a form that no longer adapts. The verb is built on the Latin word for bone, the same root that appears in ossuary.
How OSSIFY is used
Literal in anatomy; figurative in writing about politics, institutions and ideas.
- The cartilage in the infant's skull begins to ossify within months.
- Left alone, a rule like that will ossify into pointless ritual.
- Critics said the party had begun to ossify under its ageing leaders.
- Tradition can ossify when nobody dares question it.
- Muscle and tendon may ossify after a severe injury.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSSIFY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OSSIFY
1 longer words begin with OSSIFY.
Shorter words from the letters in OSSIFY
Common questions about OSSIFY
- Is OSSIFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSSIFY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSSIFY worth?
- OSSIFY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSSIFY mean?
- To turn into bone, or to become rigid and unable to change.
- What letters can be added to OSSIFY?
- No single letter can be added to OSSIFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OSSIFY:
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