RIZ is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. RIZ 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RIZ?
| 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: 58 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RIZ is to know. It scores 12 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RIZ
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How RIZ scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RIZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does RIZ mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectarchaic
To rise or move upward; a dialectal and old-fashioned past-tense form of rise.
Riz turns up in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American speech, especially in Southern and rural dialects, where the expected past tense rose was routinely replaced by this shorter form. Grammarians long treated riz as a mark of uneducated speech, yet it survived because it follows the same pattern speakers use for many irregular verbs, flattening rose and risen into one all-purpose form.
How RIZ is used
Heard in older rural and regional English rather than in standard writing; still recognised in folk speech and dialect literature.
- The bread dough riz twice before she finally shaped the loaves.
- He said the river riz three feet overnight after the storm.
- By morning the sun had riz over the ridge.
- Grandpa always said the price of corn riz every autumn.
- The old preacher swore the dead would have riz already if the day were near.
- Smoke riz slowly from the chimney in the cold air.
- The whole town riz early to watch the parade.
- Her voice riz above the noise of the crowd.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RIZ and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see RIZ
- Riz is the French word for rice, and it appears on English menus in dishes such as riz au lait.
- Dictionaries that include riz label it a dialect and folk-speech form from nineteenth-century America.
- Riz still turns up today in older rural speech rather than in standard written English.
Words starting with RIZ
18 longer words begin with RIZ.
Words ending in RIZ
4 words end in RIZ. Useful as a back hook: play RIZ onto a word already on the board.
Words with RIZ inside
Showing 24 of 1210 words that contain RIZ somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RIZ are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about RIZ
- Is RIZ valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RIZ is not in it.
- How many points is RIZ worth?
- RIZ is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RIZ mean?
- To rise or move upward; a dialectal and old-fashioned past-tense form of rise.
- What letters can be added to RIZ?
- RIZ takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RIZ:
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