LAZZO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 23 points
It depends on the list you play by. LAZZO 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 23 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LAZZO?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LAZZO is to know. It scores 23 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LAZZO
No single letter turns LAZZO into another word.
How LAZZO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LAZZO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| z | 2 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. LAZZO needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about LAZZO
- Two Zs in one word: LAZZO doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- LAZZO scores 23 points, more than twice the average for a 5-letter word (9.2).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does LAZZO mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A short piece of comic stage business improvised by an actor during a commedia dell'arte performance.
A lazzo is a stock comic routine, such as a pratfall, a piece of clowning with a prop, or a bit of wordplay, that a commedia dell'arte performer inserts into a scene largely regardless of the main plot. Troupes built up a repertoire of such routines and reused them from one performance to another.
How LAZZO is used
A specialist theatre-history term, met mainly in writing about Italian comic theatre.
- The clown performed a lazzo involving a runaway hat.
- Historians catalogued dozens of traditional lazzo routines.
- The actor inserted a lazzo to win a laugh from the crowd.
- Each lazzo was rehearsed until the timing felt effortless.
- The troupe kept a notebook listing every lazzo they used.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LAZZO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in LAZZO
1 words end in LAZZO. Useful as a back hook: play LAZZO onto a word already on the board.
Words with LAZZO inside
1 words contain LAZZO in the middle. Words that start with LAZZO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LAZZO
Common questions about LAZZO
- Is LAZZO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LAZZO is not in it.
- How many points is LAZZO worth?
- LAZZO is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LAZZO mean?
- A short piece of comic stage business improvised by an actor during a commedia dell'arte performance.
- What letters can be added to LAZZO?
- No single letter can be added to LAZZO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LAZZO:
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