LEEZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. LEEZE 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 LEEZE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEEZE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEEZE
No single letter turns LEEZE into another word.
How LEEZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LEEZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 85,554.
What does LEEZE mean in Scrabble?
interjection
Scotsarchaic
Used in the phrase leeze me to express warm affection, pride or delight in something.
Leeze survives almost entirely inside the fixed Scots phrase leeze me on, which roughly means dear to me is or blessed be, and it appears in this pattern in older Scots verse, most famously in the poetry of Robert Burns. The word itself carries no meaning outside that phrase, functioning more like a set exclamation than an ordinary noun or verb. Readers meeting leeze today are almost always meeting it inside a quoted line of older Scots writing.
How LEEZE is used
Archaic Scots usage, found chiefly in traditional verse and in the fixed phrase leeze me on.
- The old song begins leeze me on the barley bree.
- He quoted the line leeze me on my bonnie lass with a grin.
- The poem uses leeze me on to praise simple country food.
- Scholars explain that leeze in this phrase once meant dear is to me.
- The Burns recital included several verses built around leeze me on.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEEZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in LEEZE
Common questions about LEEZE
- Is LEEZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LEEZE is not in it.
- How many points is LEEZE worth?
- LEEZE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEEZE mean?
- Used in the phrase leeze me to express warm affection, pride or delight in something.
- What letters can be added to LEEZE?
- No single letter can be added to LEEZE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LEEZE:
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