FRIZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 17 points
It depends on the list you play by. FRIZE 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 17 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FRIZE?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FRIZE is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FRIZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FRIZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FRIZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 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 FRIZE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A coarse, heavy woollen cloth with a rough, uncut nap on one side, once used for cloaks, coats and rugs.
Frize was a thick, warm fabric worn by countryfolk and soldiers because the shaggy nap trapped air and shed rain; tailors of past centuries lined winter coats with frize rather than finer wool. Today the word survives mainly in histories of costume and in dictionaries of textiles, though the cloth itself is sometimes still called by its other spelling, frieze.
How FRIZE is used
Rare outside descriptions of historical clothing and textile history; met mostly in older writing.
- The shepherd wore a coat cut from heavy frize to keep out the wind.
- Museum records describe the cloak as lined with grey frize.
- Soldiers on the march often wore frize against the winter cold.
- The tailor kept a bolt of coarse frize for working garments.
- Old inventories list blankets of frize among the household goods.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FRIZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FRIZE
6 longer words begin with FRIZE.
Shorter words from the letters in FRIZE
Common questions about FRIZE
- Is FRIZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FRIZE is not in it.
- How many points is FRIZE worth?
- FRIZE is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FRIZE mean?
- A coarse, heavy woollen cloth with a rough, uncut nap on one side, once used for cloaks, coats and rugs.
- What letters can be added to FRIZE?
- FRIZE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FRIZE:
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