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Is souse a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word souse is a Scrabble US word. The word souse is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is souse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word souse is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word souse is a Words With Friends word. The word souse is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

SOUSE,

4-letter words (4 found)

OSES,SOUS,SUES,USES,

3-letter words (9 found)

ESS,OES,OSE,OUS,SOS,SOU,SUE,SUS,USE,

2-letter words (6 found)

ES,OE,OS,OU,SO,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 21 words from souse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of souse

souse

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saʊs/
  • Rhymes: -aʊs
  • Homophone: sowse

Etymology 1

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

Noun

souse (plural souses)

  1. Something kept or steeped in brine.
    1. The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
      1. (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
      2. (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
    2. A pickle made with salt.
    3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  2. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  3. A drunkard.
Synonyms
  • (person suffering from alcoholism): alcoholic, sot, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
See also
  • (food): brawn, budin, haggis, head cheese, pudding, sausage, scrapple

Verb

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

  1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
  2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Derived terms

  • soused

Etymology 2

Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).

Noun

souse (plural souses)

  1. The act of sousing, or swooping.
  2. A heavy blow.

Verb

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

  1. (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
  2. (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.

Adverb

souse (not comparable)

  1. (now rare, dialectal) Suddenly, without warning.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French, from Old French sous (plural of sout), from Latin solidus. Compare solidus (“gold coin of the late Roman empire”).

Noun

souse

  1. (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).
  2. (dated) A small amount.

Etymology 4

First appeared online during the Bush administration.

Noun

souse

  1. (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.

Anagrams

  • ouses

Haitian Creole

Alternative forms

  • sise

Etymology

From French sucer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suse/

Verb

souse

  1. (transitive) to suck
  2. (transitive) to drain

Derived terms

  • sousetrennen

Related terms

  • sousè
  • sousèt

Source: wiktionary.org