LEAZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. LEAZE 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LEAZE?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEAZE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEAZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEAZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LEAZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 31,687.
What does LEAZE mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectregional
A meadow or pasture, especially in older English regional speech.
Leaze is a dialect variant of lease in its old sense of grazing land, once common in the southwest of England for a field where livestock were turned out to feed. Village and farm names still preserve the word long after everyday speakers stopped using it. A leaze differs from arable land in that it is kept under grass rather than ploughed for crops.
How LEAZE is used
Regional and largely historical; found today mainly in place names and dialect glossaries.
- The cattle grazed all summer on the leaze below the farm.
- An old map marked the field simply as the leaze.
- Sheep were driven onto the leaze after the hay was cut.
- The farmer fenced off part of the leaze for the young calves.
- Local records still call the meadow Church Leaze.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEAZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LEAZE
1 longer words begin with LEAZE.
Words ending in LEAZE
1 words end in LEAZE. Useful as a back hook: play LEAZE onto a word already on the board.
Words with LEAZE inside
6 words contain LEAZE in the middle. Words that start with LEAZE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LEAZE
Common questions about LEAZE
- Is LEAZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LEAZE is not in it.
- How many points is LEAZE worth?
- LEAZE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEAZE mean?
- A meadow or pasture, especially in older English regional speech.
- What letters can be added to LEAZE?
- LEAZE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LEAZE:
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