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Yes. The word floss is a Scrabble US word. The word floss is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word floss is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FLOSS,

4-letter words (3 found)

FOSS,LOSS,SOLS,

3-letter words (3 found)

LOS,SOL,SOS,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OF,OS,SO,

You can make 11 words from floss according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of floss

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Definitions and meaning of floss

floss

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /flɒs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /flɔs/
  • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /flɑs/
  • Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *flos (attested in Middle English Flosmonger (a surname)), related to English fleece. Alternatively from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”).

Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (“plush”) (tr=17c.).

Noun

floss (countable and uncountable, plural flosses)

  1. A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
  2. Raw silk fibres.
  3. The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
  4. Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
  5. (British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
  6. A body feather of an ostrich.
  7. A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
Derived terms
  • ass floss
  • butt floss
  • candy floss
  • dental floss
  • fairy floss
  • floss pick
  • floss silk
  • flossy
  • meat floss
  • pork floss
Translations

Verb

floss (third-person singular simple present flosses, present participle flossing, simple past and past participle flossed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To clean the area between (the teeth) using floss.
    I don't floss very often.
    I floss my teeth twice a day.
  3. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.
  4. To perform the floss dance move.
Derived terms
  • flosser
  • flossible

Etymology 2

From dialectal flosh (“a flush, stream of water, sluice”), from Middle English flosche, flusche, flasche, flaske (“a watery or marshy place, swamp”), perhaps from Old French flache, from Middle Dutch vlacke (“a flat area, plain”), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *fleutan. Compare also German Floss (“a float”).

Noun

floss (plural flosses)

  1. (UK) A small stream of water.
  2. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Derived terms
  • floss hole
Translations

Etymology 3

Origin obscure. Perhaps of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian flos, flus (“rind, scale, strip peeled off”).

Noun

floss (plural flosses)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
    Synonyms: common rush, soft rush

References

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɔs/

Verb

floss

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of fließen

Swedish

Noun

floss ?

  1. (slang) Alternative form of flos (“money”)

Source: wiktionary.org