ZAMAN is valid in Collins, not in North America — 16 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZAMAN 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 16 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ZAMAN?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZAMAN is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZAMAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZAMAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZAMAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does ZAMAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
Caribbeanbotany
A large tropical tree of the mimosa family, known too as the rain tree, grown for shade and valued for its wide, umbrella-like canopy.
A zaman spreads its branches wide rather than growing tall, which is why it is often planted along roads and in parks purely for the shade it casts. Its small pink and white flowers appear in rounded clusters, and its seed pods provide feed that cattle readily eat. The name zaman is used in the Caribbean, while the same tree is called saman or the rain tree elsewhere.
How ZAMAN is used
A regional botanical term used mainly in Caribbean English.
- The village square was shaded by a single huge zaman.
- Cattle gathered under the zaman to eat the fallen pods.
- A row of zaman trees lined the old plantation road.
- The zaman's canopy spread wider than the house beside it.
- Farmers planted a zaman for shade near the cattle pen.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZAMAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZAMAN
3 longer words begin with ZAMAN.
Shorter words from the letters in ZAMAN
Common questions about ZAMAN
- Is ZAMAN valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZAMAN is not in it.
- How many points is ZAMAN worth?
- ZAMAN is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZAMAN mean?
- A large tropical tree of the mimosa family, known too as the rain tree, grown for shade and valued for its wide, umbrella-like canopy.
- What letters can be added to ZAMAN?
- ZAMAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZAMAN:
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