amaze: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 16 letter points · starts with A · ends with E
Meaning of amaze
verb
- transitive
To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise.
Example: He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- obsolete, transitive
To stun or stupefy (someone).
- also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive
To bewilder or perplex (someone or oneself).
- obsolete, poetic, transitive
To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to terrify.
Listed forms: amazes, amazing, amazed, glossary, amazest.
Source: Wiktionary — amaze.
noun
- archaic, uncountable
Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
- archaic, uncountable
Fear, terror.
- obsolete, uncountable
Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this.
Listed forms: amazes.
Source: Wiktionary — amaze.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for amaze.
verb
affect with wonder
verb
be a mystery or bewildering to
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is amaze in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of amaze
A(1) + M(3) + A(1) + Z(10) + E(1) = 16 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of amaze
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from amaze
6 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in amaze. Showing up to 24, longest first.