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JAZZ

4 letters, 29 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What JAZZ Means

  1. noun: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk“that's a lot of wind”
  2. noun: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
  3. verb: play something in the style of jazz
  4. verb: have sexual intercourse with“Adam knew Eve”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JAZZ is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 29 in Scrabble and 31 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 A1 Z10 Z10.

Words Made From The Letters In JAZZ

2 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

2 letter words (2)

Longer Words Containing JAZZ

JAZZ appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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