DIZEN is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. DIZEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIZEN?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIZEN is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIZEN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
dizensChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DIZEN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DIZEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does DIZEN mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To dress or decorate someone in a showy, overly elaborate way.
Dizen is an old verb meaning to dress a person up in bright, excessive finery, often more for show than for good taste. It is closely related to the more familiar word bedizen, which adds the prefix be- to the same root and carries the identical meaning. The word belongs to literary and archaic English and is rarely heard in modern speech outside descriptions of old-fashioned or theatrical costume.
How DIZEN is used
Archaic and literary; encountered mainly in older novels or poetic description rather than modern conversation.
- The old tale describes how servants would dizen the bride in jewels.
- She was dizened in ribbons for the village fair.
- The actor was dizened with a gaudy cloak for the final scene.
- Poets once used dizen to mock overdressed nobility.
- The costume department loved to dizen the dolls for the display.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIZEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DIZEN
5 longer words begin with DIZEN.
Words ending in DIZEN
1 words end in DIZEN. Useful as a back hook: play DIZEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with DIZEN inside
5 words contain DIZEN in the middle. Words that start with DIZEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DIZEN
Common questions about DIZEN
- Is DIZEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIZEN, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIZEN worth?
- DIZEN is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIZEN mean?
- To dress or decorate someone in a showy, overly elaborate way.
- What letters can be added to DIZEN?
- DIZEN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DIZEN:
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