WHOSE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WHOSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WHOSE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WHOSE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WHOSE
No single letter turns WHOSE into another word.
How WHOSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WHOSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does WHOSE mean in Scrabble?
pronoun
The possessive form of who or which, used to ask or state to whom or to what something belongs.
Whose functions as the possessive counterpart to who, allowing a speaker to ask about ownership or to link a noun to a person or thing already mentioned, as in the man whose car was stolen. Although whose looks like it should belong only to people, it is regularly used with things and ideas too, as in a company whose profits fell. Learners sometimes confuse whose with the contraction who's, meaning who is or who has, but the two words are never interchangeable despite sounding identical. Whose can open a question directly or introduce a relative clause inside a longer sentence.
How WHOSE is used
Frequently confused in writing with the contraction who's, even though the two words are pronounced the same but spelled and used differently.
- Whose jacket is hanging on the back of the chair.
- The woman whose dog barked all night finally apologized.
- I do not know whose idea it was to cancel the trip.
- The company, whose sales had fallen sharply, cut its prices.
- Whose turn is it to choose the movie tonight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WHOSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WHOSE
The 5 tiles of WHOSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WHOSE
3 longer words begin with WHOSE.
Shorter words from the letters in WHOSE
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Common questions about WHOSE
- Is WHOSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WHOSE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WHOSE worth?
- WHOSE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WHOSE mean?
- The possessive form of who or which, used to ask or state to whom or to what something belongs.
- What letters can be added to WHOSE?
- No single letter can be added to WHOSE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WHOSE:
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