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Is faze a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word faze is a Scrabble US word. The word faze is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

F4A1Z10E1

Is faze a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word faze is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

FAZE,

3-letter words (3 found)

FAE,FEZ,ZEA,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,EA,EF,FA,FE,ZA,ZE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from faze according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of faze

faze

English

Alternative forms

  • phase (see notes)
  • feaze

Etymology

From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”).

Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830, and usage was established by 1890.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fāz, IPA(key): /feɪz/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /fæɪz/
  • Homophone: phase
  • Rhymes: -eɪz

Verb

faze (third-person singular simple present fazes, present participle fazing, simple past and past participle fazed)

  1. (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]

Usage notes

The spelling phase is sometimes erroneously used for faze.

Derived terms

  • unfazeable
  • unfazed

Translations

References

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese fazer.

Verb

faze

  1. do, make

References

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: fa‧ze

Verb

faze

  1. (Brazilian Portuguese spelling) second-person singular imperative of fazer

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfaze]

Noun

faze f

  1. inflection of fază:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Source: wiktionary.org