MAZE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. MAZE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAZE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 67 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAZE is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAZE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MAZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does MAZE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A network of paths designed to confuse.
A maze has dead ends while a labyrinth has one route and no choices at all — a distinction the two words lost long ago in ordinary use. The hedge maze is a seventeenth-century garden fashion and much younger than either term.
How MAZE is used
Countable: a maze, two mazes.
- The maze at that house takes twenty minutes if you are lucky.
- A maze has dead ends and a labyrinth does not.
- The hedge maze is a seventeenth-century fashion.
- Two mazes in the same garden is showing off.
- A maze of corridors with no signs anywhere.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAZE
13 longer words begin with MAZE.
Words ending in MAZE
3 words end in MAZE. Useful as a back hook: play MAZE onto a word already on the board.
Words with MAZE inside
20 words contain MAZE in the middle. Words that start with MAZE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MAZE
Common questions about MAZE
- Is MAZE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAZE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAZE worth?
- MAZE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAZE mean?
- A network of paths designed to confuse.
- What letters can be added to MAZE?
- MAZE takes 6 hooks: 2 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MAZE:
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