TOAZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. TOAZE 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 TOAZE?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOAZE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOAZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOAZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TOAZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does TOAZE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicdialect
To work loose and separate fibres such as raw wool or flax, pulling the strands apart to ready them for spinning.
Toaze turns up in Shakespeare and later regional writing, naming the handwork of pulling raw wool or flax apart before it could be spun into thread. Because the action involves tugging and worrying at material, writers later stretched toaze more loosely to any rough handling of something. The spelling sits alongside toze and tose as older variants of the same verb, and it now appears mainly in quotations from historical texts rather than everyday speech.
How TOAZE is used
Archaic and literary; encountered chiefly in Shakespeare and other older English texts, not in modern conversation.
- The spinner would toaze the raw wool before setting it on the wheel.
- In the old play, a servant is told to toaze out the tangled flax.
- She had to toaze apart the matted fleece by hand.
- The word toaze shows up in Shakespeare with the sense of pulling something out roughly.
- Toaze survives now only in older printed texts, not in everyday talk.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOAZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TOAZE
The 5 tiles of TOAZE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TOAZE
2 longer words begin with TOAZE.
Shorter words from the letters in TOAZE
Common questions about TOAZE
- Is TOAZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TOAZE is not in it.
- How many points is TOAZE worth?
- TOAZE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOAZE mean?
- To work loose and separate fibres such as raw wool or flax, pulling the strands apart to ready them for spinning.
- What letters can be added to TOAZE?
- TOAZE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TOAZE:
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