WANZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 17 points
It depends on the list you play by. WANZE 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 17 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WANZE?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WANZE is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WANZE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WANZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WANZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does WANZE mean in Scrabble?
verb
obsolete
To wane, waste away, or gradually decrease in strength or size.
Wanze described a slow falling away, as light wanzing toward dusk or a person's health wanzing under long illness. The word came from Middle English and shared roots with wane, but it survived only in scattered older texts before dropping out of everyday use altogether.
How WANZE is used
Obsolete; found only in historical texts and specialist word lists, not in ordinary modern writing.
- The old text says the moon will wanze before the storm arrives.
- Villagers feared the crops would wanze in the dry summer.
- He watched his strength wanze with each passing week of fever.
- The candle seemed to wanze rather than burn brightly.
- Poets used wanze to describe hope fading slowly away.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WANZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WANZE
2 longer words begin with WANZE.
Shorter words from the letters in WANZE
Common questions about WANZE
- Is WANZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WANZE is not in it.
- How many points is WANZE worth?
- WANZE is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WANZE mean?
- To wane, waste away, or gradually decrease in strength or size.
- What letters can be added to WANZE?
- WANZE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WANZE:
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