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Yes. The word mousse is a Scrabble US word. The word mousse is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (3 found)

MOUSES,MOUSSE,SMOUSE,

5-letter words (10 found)

MEOUS,MOSES,MOUES,MOUSE,MUSES,MUSOS,MUSSE,SOUMS,SOUSE,SUMOS,

4-letter words (23 found)

EMOS,EMUS,MEOU,MESS,MEUS,MOES,MOSE,MOSS,MOUE,MOUS,MUSE,MUSO,MUSS,OSES,SOME,SOMS,SOUM,SOUS,SUES,SUMO,SUMS,UMES,USES,

3-letter words (23 found)

EMO,EMS,EMU,ESS,MES,MEU,MOE,MOS,MOU,MUS,OES,OMS,OSE,OUS,SOM,SOS,SOU,SUE,SUM,SUS,UME,UMS,USE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EM,ES,ME,MO,MU,OE,OM,OS,OU,SO,UM,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 72 words from mousse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mousse

mousse

Etymology

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːs/
  • Rhymes: -uːs
  • Homophone: moose

Noun

mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)

  1. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
  2. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
  3. A styling cream used for hair.
    He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
  4. A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.

Descendants

  • → Irish: mús

Translations

Verb

mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)

  1. To apply mousse (styling cream).
    He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.

Anagrams

  • Smouse, mouses, smouse

Finnish

Etymology

From French mousse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmou̯sːe/, [ˈmo̞u̯s̠ːe̞]
  • IPA(key): /ˈmuseː/, [ˈmus̠e̞ː]
  • IPA(key): /ˈmuse/, [ˈmus̠e̞]
  • Rhymes: -ousːe
  • Syllabification(key): mous‧se

Noun

mousse

  1. mousse

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “mousse”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mus/
  • Rhymes: -us

Etymology 1

Originally from a dialect south of the Loire, from Vulgar Latin *muttius (compare Occitan mos), of Gaulish origin, or alternatively from Latin mutilus (compare Italian mozzo).

Adjective

mousse (plural mousses)

  1. blunt
Derived terms
  • émousser

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss”).

For the culinary sense one might suspect influence by Dutch moes, German Mus (both “mush, purée”). However, the metaphorical use of mousse for “foam” is older and the culinary sense can thence be derived without difficulty.

Noun

mousse f (plural mousses)

  1. moss (the plant)
  2. bryophyte (in the broad sense)
  3. foam
  4. mousse (dessert)
    Hypernym: dessert
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Danish: mousse
  • → Dutch: mousse
  • → English: mousse
    • → Irish: mús

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish mozo.

Noun

mousse m (plural mousses)

  1. a boy serving on a ship: a cabin boy
Derived terms
  • moussaillon

Etymology 4

Verb

mousse

  1. inflection of mousser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “mousse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmusː]
  • Hyphenation: mousse
  • Rhymes: -usː

Noun

mousse (plural mousse-ok)

  1. mousse (dessert)

Declension

Derived terms

  • csokoládémousse

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French mousse, from Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

Noun

mousse m (plural mousses)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) cabin boy

Noun

mousse m or f (plural mousses)

  1. (Jersey) child

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mous‧se

Noun

mousse f or (nonstandard) m (plural mousses)

  1. Alternative spelling of musse

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French mousse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmus/ [ˈmus]
  • Rhymes: -us

Noun

mousse f (plural mousses)

  1. mousse
    Synonym: espuma

Usage notes

  • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “mousse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

mousse c

  1. mousse (for example chocolate mousse)
  2. finely-ground meat mixed with whipped cream or egg white

Declension

References

  • mousse in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • mousse in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org