GRIZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. GRIZE 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 15 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GRIZE?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GRIZE is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GRIZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GRIZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GRIZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does GRIZE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
A step or single stair in a flight of steps.
A grize is an old dialect term for one step in a staircase, tracing back to a root meaning a step or degree. The word survives in historical and legal texts describing flights of steps leading up to a building. Because the sense is so narrow, grize now appears mainly in glossaries of archaic and dialect vocabulary rather than everyday speech.
How GRIZE is used
Archaic and rarely encountered outside dictionaries of old or dialect English.
- The visitor climbed the last grize before reaching the door.
- Each grize of the old stair had been worn smooth by centuries of feet.
- The mason cut a new grize to replace the broken step.
- A single grize can make the difference between a level floor and a raised one.
- The old record describes a porch approached by three stone grize.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GRIZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GRIZE
1 longer words begin with GRIZE.
Words ending in GRIZE
1 words end in GRIZE. Useful as a back hook: play GRIZE onto a word already on the board.
Words with GRIZE inside
2 words contain GRIZE in the middle. Words that start with GRIZE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GRIZE
Common questions about GRIZE
- Is GRIZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GRIZE is not in it.
- How many points is GRIZE worth?
- GRIZE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GRIZE mean?
- A step or single stair in a flight of steps.
- What letters can be added to GRIZE?
- GRIZE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GRIZE:
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