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Is prize a Scrabble word?

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

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Is prize a Scrabble UK word?

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

P3R1I1Z10E1

Is prize a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word prize is a Words With Friends word. The word prize is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

PRIZE,

4-letter words (5 found)

PERI,PIER,PIZE,PREZ,RIPE,

3-letter words (12 found)

IRE,PER,PIE,PIR,PRE,REI,REP,REZ,RIP,RIZ,ZEP,ZIP,

2-letter words (5 found)

ER,PE,PI,RE,ZE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from prize according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of prize

prize

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prēndere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc. Doublet of prise.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹaɪz/
    • Rhymes: -aɪz
  • Homophones: pries, prise

Noun

prize (plural prizes)

  1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
  2. (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
  3. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
  4. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
  5. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
  6. (obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.
  7. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
    Synonym: prise
Usage notes

Do not confuse with price.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English prysen, borrowed from Old French priser (“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), from pris (“price”), from Latin pretium (“price, value”), whence price; see also praise, a doublet. Compare appraise, apprize.

Verb

prize (third-person singular simple present prizes, present participle prizing, simple past and past participle prized)

  1. To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
  2. (obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
  3. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
  4. (obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.
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Etymology 3

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Adjective

prize (not comparable)

  1. Having won a prize; award-winning.
  2. First-rate; exceptional.

Etymology 4

Alternative forms.

Noun

prize (plural prizes)

  1. Obsolete form of price. [16th–19th c.]

Further reading

  • “prize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • pizer, rezip

Source: wiktionary.org