How many points in Scrabble is hostage worth? hostage how many points in Words With Friends? What does hostage mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is hostage a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word hostage is a Scrabble US word. The word hostage is worth 11 points in Scrabble:
H4O1S1T1A1G2E1
Is hostage a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word hostage is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:
H4O1S1T1A1G2E1
Is hostage a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word hostage is a Words With Friends word. The word hostage is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
H3O1S1T1A1G3E1
You can make 197 words from hostage according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English hostage, ostage, from Old French hostage, ostage. This, in turn, is either from Old French hoste (“host”) + -age (in which case the sense development is from taking someone into "lodging" to taking them into "captivity", to applying the term to a captive), or is from Vulgar Latin obsidāticum (“condition of being held captive”), from Latin obses (“hostage, captive”), with the initial h- added under the influence of hoste or another word. Displaced native Old English ġīsl.
hostage (plural hostages)
hostage (third-person singular simple present hostages, present participle hostaging, simple past and past participle hostaged)
hoste + -age
hostage oblique singular, m (oblique plural hostages, nominative singular hostages, nominative plural hostage)