ADOZE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ADOZE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ADOZE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADOZE is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADOZE
No single letter turns ADOZE into another word.
How ADOZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ADOZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does ADOZE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
In a state of light sleep; dozing.
Something or someone described as adoze is caught in a shallow, half-aware sleep rather than deep slumber. The word appears mainly in older or literary English, often describing a person nodding off in a chair or drifting in and out of wakefulness. It survives today chiefly in quotations from earlier writers rather than in ordinary conversation.
How ADOZE is used
A rare, literary and archaic word, met almost only in older prose and poetry.
- The old man sat adoze by the fire, his book forgotten.
- She lay adoze on the porch through the warm afternoon.
- The narrator drifts adoze between memory and half-dream.
- Half adoze, he barely heard the knock at the door.
- The cat curled adoze in a patch of sunlight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADOZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ADOZE
Common questions about ADOZE
- Is ADOZE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADOZE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADOZE worth?
- ADOZE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADOZE mean?
- In a state of light sleep; dozing.
- What letters can be added to ADOZE?
- No single letter can be added to ADOZE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ADOZE:
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