TRASS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. TRASS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TRASS?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRASS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRASS
Front hooks — 1
strassBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TRASS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TRASS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What stands out about TRASS
- 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 TRASS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A pale volcanic rock, ground into powder and mixed with lime to make a hydraulic cement that hardens even under water.
Trass forms from volcanic ash that has hardened into a soft, pale rock, most famously along the Rhine valley in Germany. Builders grind trass into a fine powder and blend it with lime because the resulting cement sets underwater, unlike ordinary lime mortar. This property made trass valuable for lining cisterns, canals, and harbor walls long before modern Portland cement became common. The word reached English from Dutch, which in turn borrowed it from German trass.
How TRASS is used
A technical term in geology and older building trades, rarely heard outside descriptions of historic cement and masonry.
- Workers ground the trass into a fine gray powder.
- The old harbor wall was built with a mortar of lime and trass.
- Trass gave the cistern lining its resistance to water.
- Quarries along the river once supplied trass to local builders.
- Mixed with lime, trass produced a cement that set hard underwater.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRASS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TRASS
The 5 tiles of TRASS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TRASS
1 longer words begin with TRASS.
Words ending in TRASS
3 words end in TRASS. Useful as a back hook: play TRASS onto a word already on the board.
Words with TRASS inside
3 words contain TRASS in the middle. Words that start with TRASS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TRASS
Common questions about TRASS
- Is TRASS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRASS, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRASS worth?
- TRASS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRASS mean?
- A pale volcanic rock, ground into powder and mixed with lime to make a hydraulic cement that hardens even under water.
- What letters can be added to TRASS?
- TRASS takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TRASS:
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