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Is moss a Scrabble word?

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

M3O1S1S1

Is moss a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3O1S1S1

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

MOSS,SOMS,

3-letter words (4 found)

MOS,OMS,SOM,SOS,

2-letter words (4 found)

MO,OM,OS,SO,

You can make 10 words from moss according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of moss

moss

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɒs/
  • (US) enPR: môs, IPA(key): /mɔs/
  • (cot–caught merger) enPR: mäs, IPA(key): /mɑs/
  • Rhymes: -ɒs
  • Rhymes: -ɔːs

Etymology 1

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (which shows the same polysemy of "moss" and "bog, fen"), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.

Noun

moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)

  1. Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).
    Hypernym: bryophyte
  2. (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
  3. (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
    Hyponyms: alga, cryptogam, lichen
  4. (now chiefly UK regional) A bog; a fen.
    Loynton Moss
  5. (American football, slang, countable) A spectacular catch made over 1 or multiple defenders, typically a jump ball.
    Bro, that moss was insane!

Usage notes
  • The plural form mosses is used when more than one kind of moss (plant) is meant, or more than one bog. The singular moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.
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Verb

moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)

  1. (intransitive) To become covered with moss.
  2. (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.
  3. (American football, slang, transitive, intransitive) To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.
Translations

See also

  • muscoid

Etymology 2

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Verb

moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)

  1. (intransitive, MTE, slang) To relax, chill out.

References

Further reading

  • A New English dictionary on historical principles, Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6

Anagrams

  • SMOS, SMOs, soms

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • mossál

Etymology

mos +‎ -j

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmoʃː]
  • Hyphenation: moss
  • Rhymes: -oʃː

Verb

moss

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of mos
    Moss fogat! ― Brush your teeth! (literally, “Wash tooth!”)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with mos (“to wash”).


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