POSSE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. POSSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POSSE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POSSE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POSSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POSSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POSSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about POSSE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does POSSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A group of people summoned by a sheriff or law officer to help enforce the law or pursue a fugitive; more loosely, any group of associates who go about together.
In the American West a sheriff who lacked enough deputies could call together a posse of local men on the spot, deputising ordinary citizens for as long as the chase or search lasted. The word comes from the Latin posse comitatus, meaning the power of the county, a legal term for exactly this kind of emergency force raised from the community. Modern English kept the older legal sense alongside a much looser, informal one, where a posse is simply a person's circle of friends who go around together, especially among young people. Both senses share the same core idea, a group gathered around one person or purpose, whether that purpose is chasing an outlaw or spending a Saturday night out.
How POSSE is used
The law-enforcement sense is now mostly historical, tied to accounts of the American West; the informal sense for a group of friends remains common, especially in North American slang.
- The sheriff raised a posse to chase down the escaped prisoner.
- Twenty riders joined the posse before it left town at dawn.
- She arrived at the party with her usual posse of friends.
- The posse tracked the outlaws for three days through the hills.
- He never went anywhere without his posse trailing behind him.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POSSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POSSE
The 5 tiles of POSSE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with POSSE
Showing 24 of 34 words that begin with POSSE.
Words with POSSE inside
Showing 24 of 30 words that contain POSSE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POSSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POSSE
Common questions about POSSE
- Is POSSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POSSE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POSSE worth?
- POSSE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POSSE mean?
- A group of people summoned by a sheriff or law officer to help enforce the law or pursue a fugitive; more loosely, any group of associates who go about together.
- What letters can be added to POSSE?
- POSSE takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POSSE:
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