CHIZZ is valid in Collins, not in North America — 28 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHIZZ 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 28 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CHIZZ?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHIZZ is to know. It scores 28 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHIZZ
No single letter turns CHIZZ into another word.
How CHIZZ scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHIZZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 2 | 1 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. CHIZZ needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about CHIZZ
- Two Zs in one word: CHIZZ doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- The letters of CHIZZ run in alphabetical order from first to last.
- At 28 points, CHIZZ is among the ten highest-scoring 5-letter words we list.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHIZZ mean in Scrabble?
verb
slangBritish
To swindle or cheat someone, especially in British schoolboy slang.
Chizz, also spelled chiz, comes from British schoolboy slang and describes any small unfair trick, from being cheated of pocket money to being denied something promised. It could also be shouted alone as a complaint, meaning roughly "that is unfair", and belongs firmly to playground and storybook speech rather than adult conversation.
How CHIZZ is used
Slang, dated schoolboy usage; encountered mainly in older British children's writing.
- The boys accused the shopkeeper of trying to chizz them.
- It's a chizz to charge extra for something free elsewhere.
- He tried to chizz his classmate out of a sweet.
- Nobody likes to be chizzed out of their pocket money.
- The old schoolboy slang used chizz for any unfair trick.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHIZZ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHIZZ
3 longer words begin with CHIZZ.
Words with CHIZZ inside
3 words contain CHIZZ in the middle. Words that start with CHIZZ are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHIZZ
Common questions about CHIZZ
- Is CHIZZ valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CHIZZ is not in it.
- How many points is CHIZZ worth?
- CHIZZ is worth 28 points in Scrabble and 28 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHIZZ mean?
- To swindle or cheat someone, especially in British schoolboy slang.
- What letters can be added to CHIZZ?
- No single letter can be added to CHIZZ to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHIZZ:
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