ZOO is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ZOO 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 ZOO?
| 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: 62 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZOO is to know. It scores 12 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZOO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZOO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ZOO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,775.
What does ZOO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A place where wild animals are kept and shown to the public.
The word is clipped from zoological garden, and the London one gave it to English: the full name was in use from 1828 and the short one within twenty years. What a zoo is for has changed twice since then — display, then entertainment, then breeding — and the buildings usually lag a generation behind the argument.
How ZOO is used
Countable: a zoo, two zoos. Also figurative for any scene of disorder.
- The zoo was built for looking at and is now used for breeding.
- A zoo of that age has enclosures nobody would design today.
- The kitchen at eight in the morning is a zoo.
- Two zoos in the same country swapped animals for years.
- The word zoo is shorter than what it stands for by five syllables.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZOO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZOO
Showing 24 of 259 words that begin with ZOO.
Words ending in ZOO
5 words end in ZOO. Useful as a back hook: play ZOO onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZOO inside
Showing 24 of 82 words that contain ZOO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ZOO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZOO
Common questions about ZOO
- Is ZOO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZOO, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZOO worth?
- ZOO is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZOO mean?
- A place where wild animals are kept and shown to the public.
- What letters can be added to ZOO?
- ZOO takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ZOO:
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