OSTOSIS is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. OSTOSIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OSTOSIS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OSTOSIS is to know. It scores 7 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OSTOSIS
No single letter turns OSTOSIS into another word.
How OSTOSIS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in OSTOSIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 3 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,647 thousand.
What does OSTOSIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicaltechnical
The process by which bone is formed in the body.
Ostosis is a specialist medical term that stresses the building of bone tissue as a process. It is close in meaning to ossification but is much less common in everyday medical writing.
How OSTOSIS is used
Found in older anatomy and physiology texts when discussing how bone develops.
- Ostosis in a growing child continues until the skeleton reaches full size.
- The textbook devoted a chapter to ostosis and the cells that drive it.
- Disturbed ostosis can leave the bones brittle or misshapen.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OSTOSIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OSTOSIS
1 longer words begin with OSTOSIS.
Shorter words from the letters in OSTOSIS
Common questions about OSTOSIS
- Is OSTOSIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OSTOSIS, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OSTOSIS worth?
- OSTOSIS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OSTOSIS mean?
- The process by which bone is formed in the body.
- What letters can be added to OSTOSIS?
- No single letter can be added to OSTOSIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of OSTOSIS:
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