1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Gosse in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does gosse mean? Is gosse a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is gosse worth? gosse how many points in Words With Friends? What does gosse mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for gosse

See how to calculate how many points for gosse.

Is gosse a Scrabble word?

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

G2O1S1S1E1

Is gosse a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2O1S1S1E1

Is gosse a Words With Friends word?

The word gosse is NOT a Words With Friends word.

Our tools

Valid words made from Gosse

Results

5-letter words (3 found)

GESSO,GOSSE,SEGOS,

4-letter words (8 found)

EGOS,GEOS,GOES,GOSS,OSES,SEGO,SEGS,SOGS,

3-letter words (10 found)

EGO,ESS,GEO,GOE,GOS,OES,OSE,SEG,SOG,SOS,

2-letter words (5 found)

ES,GO,OE,OS,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 27 words from gosse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gosse

gosse

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔs/
  • Rhymes: -ɔs

Etymology 1

Possibly alteration of gonze (feminine gonzesse).

Noun

gosse m or f by sense (plural gosses)

  1. (colloquial) child, kid
    Synonym: enfant
Derived terms
  • beau gosse

Etymology 2

Uncertain. It could be an old or dialectal variant of gousse.

Noun

gosse f (plural gosses)

  1. (Canada, colloquial) testicle

Etymology 3

Variant of gousse or cosse.

Noun

gosse f (plural gosses)

  1. (Louisiana) hull, husk, shell, clove (of garlic)

Further reading

  • “gosse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

Middle English

Noun

gosse

  1. alternative form of gos

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈkosse/

Verb

gosse

  1. inflection of gossat:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

gosse (present tense gosser, past tense gossa, past participle gossa, present participle gossende)

  1. (slang) to gloat

Usage notes

Only known to have occurred in the slang phrase jeg gossa meg.

Synonyms

  • golle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish gosse (boy).

Noun

gosse m (definite singular gossen, indefinite plural gossar, definite plural gossane)

  1. young man, great guy

References

  • “gosse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete typography) goſſe, gåße

Etymology

Unknown. Initially applied to pigs and piglets. Connection to French gosse (“child”) is uncertain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɡɔsːɛ/

Noun

gosse c

  1. boy
    Synonyms: grabb, kille, pilt, pojke, ponke

Usage notes

Bit old-fashioned.

Declension

Derived terms

  • gossen i det gröna (“soldiers-in-green; Adonis annua”)
  • gosskör
  • stjärtgosse

Descendants

  • → Finnish: kossi

References

  • gosse in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
  • gosse in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Source: wiktionary.org