TOSE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. TOSE 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 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TOSE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOSE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOSE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TOSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,702.
What does TOSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To tease or comb out fibres of wool by hand before spinning.
Before machines took over the work, women would tose raw wool to loosen and straighten the fibres, pulling apart the tangled locks so the wool could later be carded and spun into thread. The word comes from older Scots speech and is tied closely to traditional wool work.
How TOSE is used
Now found mainly in older Scots texts and in descriptions of traditional hand spinning.
- The women would tose the wool by the fire before the long winter evenings.
- It takes patience to tose a fleece properly before carding it.
- Her grandmother still remembered how to tose wool the old way.
- They used a pair of hand cards after they tose the raw fleece.
- The museum display shows how villagers used to tose wool for the mill.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TOSE
The 4 tiles of TOSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TOSE
2 longer words begin with TOSE.
Words ending in TOSE
Showing 24 of 28 words that end in TOSE. Useful as a back hook: play TOSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TOSE inside
Showing 24 of 109 words that contain TOSE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TOSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TOSE
Common questions about TOSE
- Is TOSE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TOSE is not in it.
- How many points is TOSE worth?
- TOSE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOSE mean?
- To tease or comb out fibres of wool by hand before spinning.
- What letters can be added to TOSE?
- TOSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TOSE:
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