ZANZE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 23 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZANZE 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 23 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ZANZE?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZANZE is to know. It scores 23 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZANZE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
zanzesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZANZE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZANZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 2 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. ZANZE needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about ZANZE
- Two Zs in one word: ZANZE doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- ZANZE 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 ZANZE mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
An alternative name for the zanza, an African thumb piano played by plucking metal or wooden tongues.
Zanze refers to the same family of African instruments as the zanza: a small soundbox fitted with flexible tongues that a player plucks with the thumbs to sound individual notes. The two spellings, zanze and zanza, appear side by side in reference works describing the instrument.
How ZANZE is used
A specialist musicological term, interchangeable with zanza in most sources.
- The catalogue listed the zanze under African percussion.
- She demonstrated the zanze at the folk instrument workshop.
- A zanze accompanied the singers at the ceremony.
- The museum case grouped the zanze with other thumb pianos.
- He tuned the zanze by adjusting the length of its tongues.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZANZE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ZANZE
The 5 tiles of ZANZE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ZANZE
1 longer words begin with ZANZE.
Shorter words from the letters in ZANZE
Common questions about ZANZE
- Is ZANZE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZANZE is not in it.
- How many points is ZANZE worth?
- ZANZE is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZANZE mean?
- An alternative name for the zanza, an African thumb piano played by plucking metal or wooden tongues.
- What letters can be added to ZANZE?
- ZANZE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZANZE:
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