WUZ is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. WUZ is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WUZ?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WUZ is to know. It scores 15 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WUZ
No single letter turns WUZ into another word.
How WUZ scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WUZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,213.
What stands out about WUZ
- At 15 points, WUZ is among the ten highest-scoring 3-letter words we list.
- WUZ averages 5 points a tile — one of 118 words that dense.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WUZ mean in Scrabble?
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A nonstandard spelling of was, used in writing to mark casual or regional speech.
Wuz is eye dialect: the spelling changes, the sound does not. Say was quickly in almost any accent and it comes out much the same way, so a writer who prints wuz is not recording an unusual pronunciation but labelling the speaker as rural, uneducated or joking. That is why it turns up in comic captions and on hand-painted signs, and almost never in speech transcribed for research.
How WUZ is used
Belongs inside quoted speech and captions; edited prose uses the standard spelling.
- The caption read: I wuz here first.
- He wrote wuz on purpose and the editor changed it back.
- Wuz in a novel usually means the author wants you to hear an accent.
- The old photograph was labelled Kilroy wuz here in white paint.
- She spells it wuz in texts and was in letters.
- A single wuz in the first line tells you what kind of book this is.
- Wuz looks wrong on the page, which is exactly the point.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WUZ and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WUZ
4 longer words begin with WUZ.
Common questions about WUZ
- Is WUZ valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WUZ, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WUZ worth?
- WUZ is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WUZ mean?
- A nonstandard spelling of was, used in writing to mark casual or regional speech.
- What letters can be added to WUZ?
- No single letter can be added to WUZ to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WUZ:
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