ZANTE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZANTE 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 ZANTE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZANTE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZANTE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
zantesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZANTE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZANTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does ZANTE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
The yellow-orange wood of the European smoke-tree, used for dye and cabinetwork, and known in the trade as young fustic.
Zante wood comes from Cotinus coggygria, a shrubby tree once widely exported through the Greek island of Zante, which gave the timber and its dye their common name. Dyers valued zante for the yellow and orange colors it produced in wool and leather before synthetic dyes became common. Cabinetmakers also used the wood itself for small decorative work because of its warm color and fine grain.
How ZANTE is used
Countable or uncountable noun for the wood or dye; also appears in the compound zantewood.
- The dyer soaked the wool in a bath made from zante.
- Cabinetmakers prized zante for its warm yellow grain.
- Old trade records list crates of zante shipped from the Mediterranean.
- The museum label described the inlay as zante wood.
- Zante gave the fabric a rich, golden-orange tint.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZANTE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZANTE
5 longer words begin with ZANTE.
Words ending in ZANTE
1 words end in ZANTE. Useful as a back hook: play ZANTE onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in ZANTE
Common questions about ZANTE
- Is ZANTE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZANTE is not in it.
- How many points is ZANTE worth?
- ZANTE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZANTE mean?
- The yellow-orange wood of the European smoke-tree, used for dye and cabinetwork, and known in the trade as young fustic.
- What letters can be added to ZANTE?
- ZANTE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZANTE:
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