BRIZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 16 points
It depends on the list you play by. BRIZE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 16 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BRIZE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BRIZE is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BRIZE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
brizesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BRIZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BRIZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does BRIZE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An old word for the gadfly, an insect that bites livestock.
Brize is an archaic variant of breeze in its insect sense. Before breeze came to mean wind in everyday speech, it and brize both named the biting fly that torments cattle and horses in summer, driving them to run and stamp.
How BRIZE is used
Rare; met mainly in older poetry, farming manuals and dictionaries.
- The cattle scattered when the brize began to bite.
- Old farming manuals warn of the brize troubling horses in the heat.
- A cloud of brize hovered over the herd by the stream.
- The poem describes oxen maddened by the brize.
- Farmers once lit smoky fires to keep the brize away from the cows.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BRIZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BRIZE
1 longer words begin with BRIZE.
Words ending in BRIZE
1 words end in BRIZE. Useful as a back hook: play BRIZE onto a word already on the board.
Words with BRIZE inside
2 words contain BRIZE in the middle. Words that start with BRIZE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BRIZE
Common questions about BRIZE
- Is BRIZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BRIZE is not in it.
- How many points is BRIZE worth?
- BRIZE is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BRIZE mean?
- An old word for the gadfly, an insect that bites livestock.
- What letters can be added to BRIZE?
- BRIZE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BRIZE:
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