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Yes. The word posse is a Scrabble US word. The word posse is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is posse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word posse is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (4 found)

PESOS,POSES,POSSE,SPEOS,

4-letter words (8 found)

EPOS,OPES,OSES,PESO,POSE,POSS,SEPS,SOPS,

3-letter words (9 found)

ESS,OES,OPE,OPS,OSE,PES,POS,SOP,SOS,

2-letter words (7 found)

ES,OE,OP,OS,PE,PO,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from posse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of posse

posse opsse psose spose ospse sopse posse opsse psose spose ospse sopse pssoe spsoe pssoe spsoe sspoe sspoe osspe sospe osspe sospe ssope ssope poses opses psoes spoes ospes sopes poess opess peoss eposs oepss eopss pseos speos pesos epsos sepos espos oseps soeps oesps eosps seops esops poses opses psoes spoes ospes sopes poess opess peoss eposs oepss eopss pseos speos pesos epsos sepos espos oseps soeps oesps eosps seops esops psseo spseo psseo spseo sspeo sspeo pseso speso pesso epsso sepso espso pseso speso pesso epsso sepso espso ssepo ssepo sespo esspo sespo esspo ossep sosep ossep sosep ssoep ssoep osesp soesp oessp eossp seosp esosp osesp soesp oessp eossp seosp esosp sseop sseop sesop essop sesop essop

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word posse. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in posse.

Definitions and meaning of posse

posse

Etymology

Ellipsis of posse comitatus.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒ.si/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɑ.si/
  • Rhymes: -ɒsi

Noun

posse (plural posses)

  1. A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. [from 17th c.]
  2. (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement. [from 17th c.]
    Coordinate term: vigilante
  3. (US) A search party.
  4. (US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang. [from 20th c.]
  5. (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

  • in posse

Translations

References


Further reading

  • “posse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • posse comitatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Jamaican posse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • ESOPs, pesos, poses, s'pose, sopes, speos, spose

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English posse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈposːe/, [ˈpo̞s̠ːe̞]
  • Rhymes: -osːe
  • Syllabification(key): pos‧se

Noun

posse (slang)

  1. posse, crew, gang

Declension

Further reading

  • “posse”, 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

Franco-Provençal

Noun

posse f

  1. udder, teat
    Synonym: uvro

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English posse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.sɪ/
  • Hyphenation: po‧sse

Noun

posse (plural posse dem, quantified posse)

  1. criminal crew; gang; posse

See also

  • backitive
  • crew
  • Klansman
  • One Order
  • Shower Posse

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.se/, [ˈpɔs̠ːɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.se/, [ˈpɔsːe]

Verb

posse

  1. present active infinitive of possum  "to be able (to)"

Noun

posse n (indeclinable)

  1. power, ability
  2. potentiality, capability of being
  3. (Late Latin) force, body of men
  4. (Medieval Latin) territory, dominion

References

  • “"possum", see "Posse as subst. (poet.)"”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • posse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin posse (“power, ability”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pos‧se

Noun

posse f (plural posses)

  1. possession, land
  2. (uncountable) ownership
  3. (uncountable, politics) command

Source: wiktionary.org