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Is ooze a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ooze is a Scrabble US word. The word ooze is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is ooze a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ooze is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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Is ooze a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word ooze is a Words With Friends word. The word ooze is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

OOZE,

3-letter words (1 found)

ZOO,

2-letter words (4 found)

OE,OO,ZE,ZO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from ooze according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ooze

ooze ooze ozoe zooe ozoe zooe ooez ooez oeoz eooz oeoz eooz ozeo zoeo oezo eozo zeoo ezoo ozeo zoeo oezo eozo zeoo ezoo

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Definitions and meaning of ooze

ooze

Pronunciation

  • enPR: o͞oz, IPA(key): /uːz/
  • Rhymes: -uːz
  • Homophone: oohs

Etymology 1

  • (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)).
  • (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above.

Alternative forms

  • owze (obsolete)

Alternative forms

  • ouse (dated)

Noun

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

  1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
  2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
  3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
  4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.
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Verb

ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)

  1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
Derived terms
  • oozy
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Etymology 2

From Middle English wose, from Old English wāse (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit विष्यति (viṣyati, “flow, let loose”)). More at virus.

Noun

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

  1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
  2. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
  3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

Source: wiktionary.org