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Is goose a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word goose is a Scrabble US word. The word goose is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is goose a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word goose is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Is goose a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word goose is a Words With Friends word. The word goose is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

GOOSE,

4-letter words (6 found)

EGOS,GEOS,GOES,GOOS,OOSE,SEGO,

3-letter words (10 found)

EGO,GEO,GOE,GOO,GOS,OES,OOS,OSE,SEG,SOG,

2-letter words (6 found)

ES,GO,OE,OO,OS,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from goose according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of goose

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word goose. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in goose.

Definitions and meaning of goose

goose

Etymology

From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

  • The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
  • The verb sense of pinching the buttocks is derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gōōs, IPA(key): /ˈɡuːs/
  • Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

goose (countable and uncountable, plural geese)

  1. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
    There is a flock of geese on the pond.
  2. (strictly) A female goose.
  3. The flesh of the goose used as food.
  4. (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
  5. (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
    Synonym: goose iron
  6. (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
  7. (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.

Hypernyms

  • (waterfowl): waterfowl

Hyponyms

  • (waterfowl): gander, gosling

Holonyms

  • (waterfowl): flock, gaggle, skein, gaggle, wedge, V

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • dove or pigeon, squab
  • duck, duckling
  • eider
  • swan, swanling
  • anserine

Verb

goose (third-person singular simple present gooses, present participle goosing, simple past and past participle goosed)

  1. (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
  2. (transitive, slang) To stimulate; to spur.
  3. (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
  4. (slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
  5. (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.

Source: wiktionary.org