ARCO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ARCO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARCO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARCO is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARCO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARCO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ARCO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about ARCO
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARCO mean in Scrabble?
adverb
music
In music, a direction instructing a string player to resume using the bow, especially after a passage marked to be plucked.
Arco is an Italian musical term meaning bow. Composers write it above the staff to tell violinists, cellists, and other string players to go back to bowing the strings after a pizzicato passage where the strings were plucked with the fingers instead.
How ARCO is used
A standard direction in printed sheet music for string instruments, used alongside its opposite, pizzicato.
- The score marks arco just before the final movement begins.
- After the pizzicato section, the cellists switched back to arco.
- The conductor reminded the violins to play arco from bar forty.
- A single word, arco, told the players to pick up their bows again.
- The passage sounds thin without the arco strings underneath it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARCO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARCO
The 4 tiles of ARCO in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ARCO
5 longer words begin with ARCO.
Words ending in ARCO
2 words end in ARCO. Useful as a back hook: play ARCO onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARCO inside
Showing 24 of 150 words that contain ARCO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ARCO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARCO
Common questions about ARCO
- Is ARCO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARCO, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARCO worth?
- ARCO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARCO mean?
- In music, a direction instructing a string player to resume using the bow, especially after a passage marked to be plucked.
- What letters can be added to ARCO?
- ARCO takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ARCO:
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