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Is wos a Scrabble word?

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

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Is wos a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is wos a Words With Friends word?

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

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Valid words made from Wos

You can make 6 words from 'wos' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'wos'

SOW 6WOS 6

2 letters words from 'wos'

OS 2OW 5
SO 2WO 5

All 3 letters words made out of wos

wos ows wso swo osw sow

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

Definitions and meaning of wos

wos

Verb

wos

  1. Eye dialect spelling of was.
    • 1876, Edward Everett Hale, "Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'", Scribner's Monthly, Vol. XII, No. 1, page 20[1]:
      She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.

Anagrams

  • OSW, OWS, SOW, Sow, sow

Catawba

Etymology

The word is related to wus, wuss (“wasp”).

Noun

wos

  1. bee

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese wĕas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas (“husked rice”).

Noun

wos (ngoko beras, krama wos)

  1. uncooked rice
  2. essence; contents; gist of the matter

Further reading

  • "wos" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

Lower Sorbian

Noun

wos f (diminutive woska)

  1. Superseded spelling of wós.

Declension

Middle English

Pronoun

wos

  1. Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /woːs/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Middle Low German wose (“foam; froth”), Old English wāse (“marsh; mire”).

Noun

wōs n (nominative plural wōs)

  1. juice, sap; moisture
Declension
Related terms
  • wēsan
Descendants
  • Middle English: wos, wose
    • English: ooze, wooze

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

wōs

  1. genitive singular of wōh

Tok Pisin

Noun

wos

  1. sentinel

Source: wiktionary.org
  • WORTHY, (obsolete) to make worthy, to honour.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)