ZUZ is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 21 points
Yes for Scrabble. ZUZ is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept ZUZ?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZUZ is to know. It scores 21 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZUZ
No single letter turns ZUZ into another word.
How ZUZ scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ZUZ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 2 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. ZUZ needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about ZUZ
- Two Zs in one word: ZUZ doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- ZUZ is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
- At 21 points, ZUZ is among the ten highest-scoring 3-letter words we list.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZUZ mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A silver coin of ancient Judea.
The zuz appears throughout the Talmud as the everyday unit of money, and it survives outside scholarship in the Passover song about two goats bought for two of them. Its weight matched the Roman denarius closely enough that the two circulated side by side without anybody converting.
How ZUZ is used
Countable: a zuz, and the plural is zuzim. Historical.
- The fine is set at two hundred zuz in the older text.
- A zuz bought rather more than the song suggests.
- The song counts the goats at two zuz and everybody joins in.
- Weights of the zuz vary between finds by a few per cent.
- The word zuz appears in law before it appears in poetry.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZUZ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZUZ
2 longer words begin with ZUZ.
Words with ZUZ inside
6 words contain ZUZ in the middle. Words that start with ZUZ are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about ZUZ
- Is ZUZ valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZUZ is not in it.
- How many points is ZUZ worth?
- ZUZ is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZUZ mean?
- A silver coin of ancient Judea.
- What letters can be added to ZUZ?
- No single letter can be added to ZUZ to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ZUZ:
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