ZANZA is a valid Scrabble word — 23 points
Yes. ZANZA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 23 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZANZA?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZANZA is to know. It scores 23 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZANZA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
zanzasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZANZA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZANZA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 2 | 1 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. ZANZA needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about ZANZA
- Two Zs in one word: ZANZA doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- ZANZA scores 23 points, more than twice the average for a 5-letter word (9.2).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZANZA mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
An African musical instrument with metal or wooden tongues plucked by the thumbs, mounted on a resonating box.
A zanza is a small hand-held instrument, known too as a thumb piano, made from a set of flexible tongues of different lengths fixed over a hollow soundbox; plucking the free end of each tongue produces a note. It is played across many regions of Africa and is known by several other names, including zanze and sansa.
How ZANZA is used
A specialist term used in discussions of African instruments and ethnomusicology.
- The musician plucked a soft melody on the zanza.
- A zanza was displayed beside the drums in the exhibit.
- He carved a new zanza from a single block of wood.
- The recording featured a zanza alongside hand drums.
- Children learned simple tunes on a small zanza.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZANZA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZANZA
1 longer words begin with ZANZA.
Shorter words from the letters in ZANZA
Common questions about ZANZA
- Is ZANZA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZANZA, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZANZA worth?
- ZANZA is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZANZA mean?
- An African musical instrument with metal or wooden tongues plucked by the thumbs, mounted on a resonating box.
- What letters can be added to ZANZA?
- ZANZA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZANZA:
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