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Yes. The word molasses is a Scrabble US word. The word molasses is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word molasses is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

MOLASSES,

7-letter words (2 found)

LASSOES,MOLASSE,

6-letter words (7 found)

AMOLES,LASSES,LASSOS,LOSSES,MASSES,MOSSES,SALSES,

5-letter words (38 found)

ALMES,ALOES,AMOLE,ASSES,LAMES,LASES,LASSO,LEAMS,LOAMS,LOESS,LOMAS,LOMES,LOSES,MALES,MASES,MASSE,MEALS,MELAS,MESAL,MESAS,MOLAS,MOLES,MOSES,OASES,SALES,SALSE,SAMEL,SAMES,SASSE,SEALS,SEAMS,SESSA,SLAES,SLAMS,SLOES,SOLAS,SOLES,SOMAS,

4-letter words (63 found)

ALES,ALME,ALMS,ALOE,ALSO,AMES,ELMS,EMOS,LAME,LAMS,LASE,LASS,LEAM,LEAS,LESS,LOAM,LOMA,LOME,LOSE,LOSS,MAES,MALE,MALS,MASE,MASS,MEAL,MELA,MELS,MESA,MESS,MOAS,MOES,MOLA,MOLE,MOLS,MOSE,MOSS,OLEA,OLES,OLMS,OMAS,OSES,OSSA,SALE,SALS,SAME,SAMS,SASS,SEAL,SEAM,SEAS,SELS,SESS,SLAE,SLAM,SLOE,SOLA,SOLE,SOLS,SOMA,SOME,SOMS,SOSS,

3-letter words (39 found)

ALE,ALS,AME,ASS,EAS,ELM,ELS,EMO,EMS,ESS,LAM,LAS,LEA,LES,LOS,MAE,MAL,MAS,MEL,MES,MOA,MOE,MOL,MOS,OES,OLE,OLM,OMA,OMS,OSE,SAE,SAL,SAM,SEA,SEL,SMA,SOL,SOM,SOS,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AL,AM,AS,EA,EL,EM,ES,LA,LO,MA,ME,MO,OE,OM,OS,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 168 words from molasses according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of molasses

molasses

Etymology 1

From Portuguese melaços or Spanish melazos, from Late Latin mellacium (“must, honey-sweet thing”), from mel (“honey”) + -āceus (“-aceous”) + -ium, q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by Spanish melaza and French mélasse, conjectured to derive from unattested Late Latin mellacea, from mel + -ācea.

Alternative forms

  • mollasses, malasses, merlaasses, molassey, molassy, melasus, molassos, malassoes, malassos, molossus, melasses, mallassus, malosses, mellasses, milasses, molassers, molossoes, molossos, mullasses, molosses, melossus, mollossus, molossas, molases, mellosses, moloses, merlassers, millasses, molassisis

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): [məˈlæ.sɪz], [mɵˈlæ.sɪz]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [məˈlæ.sɪz], /məʊˈlasɪz/, /məˈlasɪz/
  • (Scots) IPA(key): /məˈlasɪz/
  • Rhymes: -æsɪz

Noun

molasses (usually uncountable, singular molass)

  1. A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
  2. (US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
    • 1777 Sept. 13, Manessah Cutler, Journal, s.v.:
      Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses.
  3. (figurative) Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
    • 1972 Nov. 26, New York Times Book Review, p. 1:
      ...the mournful molasses of his prose...
  4. (Scotland, obsolete) plural of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
  5. (Scotland, rare, obsolete) Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
Usage notes

Likely adopted in plural form because of its origin in pieces left over from sugar processing, although now usually construed as a singular or uncountable liquid except in some southern and southern-influenced dialects of American English.

Synonyms
  • (concentrated sugarcane syrup): long sweetening, treacle, theriac, sorghum syrup, cane syrup
  • (things considered figuratively sweet): See sugar and honey
Hyponyms
  • (any sweet concentrated syrup): maple syrup
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Verb

molasses

  1. (obsolete) third-person singular simple present indicative of molass: becomes drunk from molass.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /məˈlæsɪz/, /məˈlɑsɪz/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊlasɪz/, /məˈlasɪz/

Noun

molasses

  1. (geology) plural of molasse

References

  • “molasses, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • “molass, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • “† molass, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • “molasse, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • “molasses”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “molasses”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Source: wiktionary.org