RIZAS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. RIZAS 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 RIZAS?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RIZAS is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RIZAS
No single letter turns RIZAS into another word.
How RIZAS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RIZAS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What stands out about RIZAS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does RIZAS mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
Ornamental metal covers placed over Russian Orthodox icons, leaving only the face and hands of the painted figure exposed; the plural of riza.
A single riza, usually made of gilded silver or gold, was fitted over a painted icon so that only the face and hands showed through openings cut in the metal, while the rest of the panel, robes, background, halo, was represented in relief on the cover itself; museums that display several such covers together call them rizas. Wealthy patrons commissioned rizas to honor an icon and to protect the paint beneath from candle smoke and handling, and old churches and museum collections still display many rizas alongside the icons they once covered. The plural rizas is used whenever more than one such cover is being described, as in a museum catalogue.
How RIZAS is used
Historical and specialist; used in writing about Russian Orthodox religious art, as when a museum catalogue lists its rizas alongside the icons.
- The museum displayed a row of rizas removed from their original icons.
- Silver rizas from the seventeenth century lined the side chapel of the cathedral.
- Restorers had to lift the rizas carefully to examine the paint underneath.
- Wealthy donors competed to commission the most elaborate rizas.
- Several rizas in the collection were later melted down for their silver.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RIZAS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RIZAS
The 5 tiles of RIZAS in a different order — 3 found.
Shorter words from the letters in RIZAS
Common questions about RIZAS
- Is RIZAS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RIZAS is not in it.
- How many points is RIZAS worth?
- RIZAS is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RIZAS mean?
- Ornamental metal covers placed over Russian Orthodox icons, leaving only the face and hands of the painted figure exposed; the plural of riza.
- What letters can be added to RIZAS?
- No single letter can be added to RIZAS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RIZAS:
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