Is “Lossy” a Scrabble word?
Yes
LOSSY
Valid in at least one Scrabble dictionary
Valid in these dictionaries
SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
Large English Dictionary
General English word list
Meaning of Lossy
/ˈlɒsi/
adjective
1.Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
2.(power systems) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
3.(of an algorithm for converting or compressing data) Reducing the amount of information in data.
“JPEG is a lossy image compression format.”