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cosplay

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Is cosplay a Scrabble word?

No, cosplay is not in the Scrabble dictionary. Worth 14 points if it were valid.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) No
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends No

What is the meaning of cosplay?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.Examples: "Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers."; "The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions."; "It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West[…]"uncountable

2. (countable) A skit or instance of this art or practice.Examples: "Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system."; "According to a student from France who went to Japan to study Japanese, "Universities in France are like Halloween when otaku students engage in these cosplays. They take Japanese language because of anime, but they see after a few classes that it's hard and not fun. Many drop out" (author interview, 2009)."; "Popular cosplays include, for example, characters from the Final Fantasy range of games[…]"countable

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To costume oneself as a character.Examples: "She cosplayed at the manga convention."; "Senior politicians have cosplayed as train drivers, ambulance workers, Border Force officials – the list goes on."intransitive

2. (transitive) To costume oneself as (a character).Examples: "She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention."transitive

3. (figurative, often derogatory, transitive) To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another.Examples: "Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war?"; "On weekends, there was usually a party. Her classmates, free from their wealthy families, cosplayed as struggling intellectuals."; "[…] turning conservative white men into amateur commandos cosplaying war wherever they liked and the US into a war zone."derogatoryfigurativelyoftentransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "cosplay"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "cosplay"?

Scrabble
14 points
C3
O1
S1
P3
L1
A1
Y4

Not in the Scrabble dictionary, but this is how many points it would be worth.

Words With Friends
16 points
C4
O1
S1
P4
L2
A1
Y4

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