ZOOT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZOOT 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 13 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept ZOOT?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZOOT is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZOOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
zootyChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ZOOT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ZOOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,341.
What does ZOOT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
historical
Of a suit: cut with wide shoulders, a long jacket and narrow ankles.
The zoot suit took more cloth than the rest of a wardrobe put together, and that was the point: wearing one in wartime America was read as a refusal, and the riots of 1943 carry its name. The style belonged to young Mexican American and African American men in the cities, and the word is almost never used of anything else.
How ZOOT is used
In ordinary writing it appears only before suit. The wearer was a zoot-suiter.
- He kept the zoot suit in a bag for fifty years.
- A zoot suit took twice the cloth of an ordinary one.
- The riots of 1943 are named after the zoot suit.
- Nobody wore a zoot suit by accident.
- The photograph shows three men in zoot suits on a corner.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZOOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZOOT
Showing 24 of 41 words that begin with ZOOT.
Words with ZOOT inside
14 words contain ZOOT in the middle. Words that start with ZOOT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZOOT
Common questions about ZOOT
- Is ZOOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZOOT, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZOOT worth?
- ZOOT is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZOOT mean?
- Of a suit: cut with wide shoulders, a long jacket and narrow ankles.
- What letters can be added to ZOOT?
- ZOOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ZOOT:
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