ZANY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. ZANY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZANY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZANY is to know. It scores 16 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZANY
No single letter turns ZANY into another word.
How ZANY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ZANY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 36,308.
What stands out about ZANY
- ZANY scores 16 points, more than twice the average for a 4-letter word (7.7).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZANY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Amusingly unconventional.
Zany was a noun first: the servant in Italian comedy who mimicked the clown, named from a form of Giovanni. The adjective came later and has lost every trace of the theatre it started in.
How ZANY is used
Before the noun. Also a noun.
- A zany plot that nobody could summarise afterwards.
- The word zany was a character in Italian comedy.
- Zany comes from a form of the name Giovanni.
- Two zany ideas and one of them worked.
- A zany in the old sense mimicked the clown.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZANY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZANY
4 longer words begin with ZANY.
Shorter words from the letters in ZANY
Common questions about ZANY
- Is ZANY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZANY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZANY worth?
- ZANY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZANY mean?
- Amusingly unconventional.
- What letters can be added to ZANY?
- No single letter can be added to ZANY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ZANY:
Open ZANY in the Word Finder