ZILLA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZILLA 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 accept it.
Which word lists accept ZILLA?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZILLA is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZILLA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZILLA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZILLA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 154,913.
What does ZILLA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
An administrative district in India, especially one governed by an elected district council known as a zilla parishad.
The word comes from Hindi and Urdu zila, meaning simply "district," and entered English administrative usage during British rule in India, where a zilla was one of the main units of local government. Modern India kept the term for its rural local-government system, where each zilla elects a zilla parishad, a council responsible for roads, schools and other local services. The same word is also the name of a low, thorny desert plant found in Egypt, an unrelated botanical use that survives mainly in older natural-history writing. In everyday reporting on Indian politics, zilla still appears constantly wherever district-level government is discussed.
How ZILLA is used
Common in Indian English administrative, legal and news writing wherever a district-level authority is named, especially in the phrase zilla parishad.
- The new hospital was funded jointly by the state and the zilla parishad.
- Voters in the zilla elected a fresh council after years of the same leadership.
- Each zilla in the state sends a report to the central planning office every year.
- The farmer's dispute was finally settled by the zilla court.
- Officials divided the flood relief funds among the affected zilla councils.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZILLA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZILLA
3 longer words begin with ZILLA.
Words ending in ZILLA
1 words end in ZILLA. Useful as a back hook: play ZILLA onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZILLA inside
1 words contain ZILLA in the middle. Words that start with ZILLA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZILLA
Common questions about ZILLA
- Is ZILLA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZILLA, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZILLA worth?
- ZILLA is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZILLA mean?
- An administrative district in India, especially one governed by an elected district council known as a zilla parishad.
- What letters can be added to ZILLA?
- ZILLA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZILLA:
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