ZOISM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 16 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZOISM 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 16 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ZOISM?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZOISM is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZOISM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
zoismsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZOISM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZOISM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does ZOISM mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicaltechnical
An older doctrine holding that living things are animated by a distinct vital force rather than by ordinary physical and chemical processes.
Zoism treated life as something more than chemistry, proposing a special vital principle that set living matter apart from the non-living world. The idea belongs to a family of nineteenth-century vitalist theories that modern biology has since replaced with an understanding based on cell biology and biochemistry. Some older sources instead use zoism more loosely for a belief in special magical powers attributed to animals.
How ZOISM is used
A historical term from the philosophy and history of biology, rarely used outside that specialist context.
- The lecture traced zoism from its origins to its later rejection.
- Nineteenth-century thinkers debated zoism as an alternative to pure mechanism.
- Modern biology has no need for zoism to explain how cells work.
- The historian described zoism as a bridge between vitalism and folk belief.
- Few textbooks today mention zoism except as a curiosity of the past.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZOISM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZOISM
1 longer words begin with ZOISM.
Words ending in ZOISM
2 words end in ZOISM. Useful as a back hook: play ZOISM onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZOISM inside
2 words contain ZOISM in the middle. Words that start with ZOISM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZOISM
Common questions about ZOISM
- Is ZOISM valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZOISM is not in it.
- How many points is ZOISM worth?
- ZOISM is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZOISM mean?
- An older doctrine holding that living things are animated by a distinct vital force rather than by ordinary physical and chemical processes.
- What letters can be added to ZOISM?
- ZOISM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZOISM:
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