COBZA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 18 points
It depends on the list you play by. COBZA 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 18 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept COBZA?
| 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 COBZA is to know. It scores 18 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COBZA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cobzasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COBZA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COBZA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does COBZA mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
A pear-shaped, fretless lute traditionally played in Romanian and Moldovan folk music.
The cobza is a plucked or strummed stringed instrument with a rounded back and no frets. It was historically used by Roma and Romanian folk musicians to accompany dance tunes and ballads, and it is related to instruments such as the oud.
How COBZA is used
Encountered mainly in descriptions of Romanian and Moldovan folk music and instrument catalogues.
- The band opened the set with a solo on the cobza.
- He learned to play the cobza from his grandfather.
- A cobza and a violin carried the melody of the folk dance.
- The museum displayed an antique cobza from the 1800s.
- Her thesis compared the cobza to other lutes of the region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COBZA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COBZA
1 longer words begin with COBZA.
Shorter words from the letters in COBZA
Common questions about COBZA
- Is COBZA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and COBZA is not in it.
- How many points is COBZA worth?
- COBZA is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COBZA mean?
- A pear-shaped, fretless lute traditionally played in Romanian and Moldovan folk music.
- What letters can be added to COBZA?
- COBZA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COBZA:
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