ZAS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ZAS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZAS?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZAS is to know. It scores 12 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZAS
No single letter turns ZAS into another word.
How ZAS scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ZAS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does ZAS mean in Scrabble?
noun
slang
Orders of za, an informal word for pizza, in the plural.
Za is clipped from the middle of a word rather than from either end, which is rare in English and part of why it looks so odd on the page. It belongs to American student speech of the 1980s and 1990s, and the plural zas is almost never said aloud — it exists mainly to be written down.
How ZAS is used
Plural of za. American student slang, and dated.
- They ordered three zas and finished two.
- The word zas appears in student writing and nowhere serious.
- Two zas fed the whole corridor.
- Nobody says zas out loud without smiling.
- Zas dates a piece of writing to within a decade.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZAS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ZAS
The 3 tiles of ZAS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ZAS
2 longer words begin with ZAS.
Words ending in ZAS
Showing 24 of 60 words that end in ZAS. Useful as a back hook: play ZAS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in ZAS
Common questions about ZAS
- Is ZAS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZAS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZAS worth?
- ZAS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZAS mean?
- Orders of za, an informal word for pizza, in the plural.
- What letters can be added to ZAS?
- No single letter can be added to ZAS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ZAS:
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