PHIZZ is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 28 points
Yes for Scrabble. PHIZZ is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept PHIZZ?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PHIZZ is to know. It scores 28 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PHIZZ
No single letter turns PHIZZ into another word.
How PHIZZ scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PHIZZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 2 | 1 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. PHIZZ needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about PHIZZ
- Two Zs in one word: PHIZZ doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- At 28 points, PHIZZ is among the ten highest-scoring 5-letter words we list.
- PHIZZ averages 5.6 points a tile — one of 118 words that dense.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PHIZZ mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalarchaic
A person's face or facial expression, an informal shortening of physiognomy.
Phizz is a playful old shortening of physiognomy, used casually to mean simply someone's face or the expression on it. It turns up in older comic writing and letters, where a cheerful or sour phizz says as much as a full description of someone's mood.
How PHIZZ is used
Informal and old-fashioned; found mainly in older comic or familiar writing.
- His phizz lit up the moment he heard the news.
- The cartoonist exaggerated the politician's phizz.
- She pulled a sour phizz at the bitter taste.
- The old letter joked about his round, cheerful phizz.
- A grin spread across his phizz.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PHIZZ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PHIZZ
1 longer words begin with PHIZZ.
Shorter words from the letters in PHIZZ
Common questions about PHIZZ
- Is PHIZZ valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PHIZZ is not in it.
- How many points is PHIZZ worth?
- PHIZZ is worth 28 points in Scrabble and 28 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PHIZZ mean?
- A person's face or facial expression, an informal shortening of physiognomy.
- What letters can be added to PHIZZ?
- No single letter can be added to PHIZZ to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PHIZZ:
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