TOUZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. TOUZE 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 TOUZE?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOUZE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOUZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TOUZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TOUZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does TOUZE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicdialect
To ruffle or pull roughly out of order, leaving hair, cloth or fur tangled and messy.
Touze describes handling something roughly enough that it ends up in disarray, whether that is hair caught by the wind, a dog worrying at an old rag, or cloth pulled out of shape. It belongs to the same family as touse and tousle, all three verbs pointing at tugging and worrying rather than a gentle touch. The spelling touze belongs to older writing, where a modern text would more likely use tousle or rumple instead.
How TOUZE is used
Archaic and dialect; found in older texts, largely replaced today by tousle or rumple.
- The wind would touze her hair the moment she stepped outside.
- He let the terrier touze the old rag until it tore.
- Rough handling can touze a fine coat out of shape.
- In the old story, the storm seems to touze the sails and rigging.
- She smoothed down the hair the wind had touzed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOUZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TOUZE
2 longer words begin with TOUZE.
Shorter words from the letters in TOUZE
Common questions about TOUZE
- Is TOUZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TOUZE is not in it.
- How many points is TOUZE worth?
- TOUZE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOUZE mean?
- To ruffle or pull roughly out of order, leaving hair, cloth or fur tangled and messy.
- What letters can be added to TOUZE?
- TOUZE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TOUZE:
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