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Yes. The word zizania is a Scrabble US word. The word zizania is worth 25 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

ZIZANIA,

5-letter words (1 found)

ZANZA,

4-letter words (3 found)

AZAN,INIA,NAZI,

3-letter words (6 found)

AIA,AIN,ANA,ANI,ZIN,ZIZ,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AI,AN,IN,NA,ZA,

You can make 17 words from zizania according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of zizania

zizania

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zizania (“cockle, tares”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zɪˈzeɪniə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

zizania (plural zizanias)

  1. Any of several aquatic North American grasses, of the genus Zizania, grown for their edible grain; wild rice.

Latin

Etymology

Originally a neuter plural form (see zizā̆nium), which could be subject to a highly productive process of reinterpretation as collective feminine singular.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /zizˈzaː.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːniä] or IPA(key): /zizˈza.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äniä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡zidˈd͡za.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪id̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːniä]
  • Note: the /a/ is apparently long in Sumerian, unattested in Greek, scanned variously in Latin. The length of the /i/ before the underlyingly-geminate /z/ is unknown.

Noun

zizā̆nia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of zizā̆nium

Noun

zizā̆nia f (genitive zizā̆niae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of zizā̆nium (“tares; vices”)

Further reading

  • “zīzā̆nĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ZIZANIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ZIZANIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • 1 zīzānĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,701/3”
  • 2 zīzănĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,701/3”

Source: wiktionary.org