FIZ is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. FIZ 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 FIZ?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIZ is to know. It scores 15 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIZ
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fizzChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How FIZ scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in FIZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What stands out about FIZ
- At 15 points, FIZ is among the ten highest-scoring 3-letter words we list.
- FIZ averages 5 points a tile — one of 118 words that dense.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FIZ mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A hissing or sparkling sound; a spelling of fizz.
One z or two makes no difference to the meaning, and the shorter form is simply the older: English doubled the letter later to mark the vowel as short. Fiz survives in earlier printing and in accepted word lists, and it reads as a misprint to almost every modern eye.
How FIZ is used
Countable and uncountable. The usual modern spelling is fizz.
- The bottle opened with a fiz and very little else.
- Older novels spell it fiz and mean the same thing.
- A fiz that dies in a second means the cork was loose.
- The word fiz looks wrong and is perfectly correct.
- He wrote fiz because that was the spelling of his day.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIZ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FIZ
Showing 24 of 26 words that begin with FIZ.
Words ending in FIZ
1 words end in FIZ. Useful as a back hook: play FIZ onto a word already on the board.
Words with FIZ inside
1 words contain FIZ in the middle. Words that start with FIZ are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FIZ
Common questions about FIZ
- Is FIZ valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIZ, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIZ worth?
- FIZ is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIZ mean?
- A hissing or sparkling sound; a spelling of fizz.
- What letters can be added to FIZ?
- FIZ takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of FIZ:
Open FIZ in the Word Finder