SPOSH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. SPOSH is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SPOSH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPOSH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPOSH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sposhyChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How SPOSH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPOSH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What stands out about SPOSH
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 SPOSH mean in Scrabble?
noun
North Americaninformal
Slush; soft, watery snow or mud, especially underfoot.
Sposh names the wet, half-melted mess left when snow turns soft and mixes with mud or water on a path or road, essentially the same thing most speakers call slush. The word is chiefly American and informal, turning up in regional speech and older word lists rather than in everyday national use. Anyone who has walked through late-winter streets, where the snow has stopped being solid but has not fully drained away, has walked through what older speakers called sposh.
How SPOSH is used
Informal North American usage; slush is the far more common modern word for the same thing.
- Boots sank into cold sposh at every crossing.
- March left the sidewalks covered in grey sposh.
- The dog tracked sposh across the kitchen floor.
- Nobody wanted to drive through the sposh on the back road.
- Old New England speech used sposh where we now say slush.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPOSH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPOSH
The 5 tiles of SPOSH in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SPOSH
4 longer words begin with SPOSH.
Shorter words from the letters in SPOSH
Common questions about SPOSH
- Is SPOSH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SPOSH is not in it.
- How many points is SPOSH worth?
- SPOSH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPOSH mean?
- Slush; soft, watery snow or mud, especially underfoot.
- What letters can be added to SPOSH?
- SPOSH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPOSH:
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