ARROBA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ARROBA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARROBA?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARROBA is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARROBA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
arrobasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARROBA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ARROBA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 137,969.
What stands out about ARROBA
- ARROBA begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARROBA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalregional
A traditional unit of weight or liquid volume used historically in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, with a value that varied by country and commodity.
Merchants in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world once weighed goods such as wheat, oil and wine in arroba rather than kilograms, and the same word served for measuring both solids and liquids. An arroba in Mexico came to about eleven and a half kilograms, while an arroba in Brazil settled closer to fifteen, so traders had to know the local value before agreeing on a price. Old account books, land records and travel writing from Spanish America regularly mention prices given by the arroba. The unit gradually gave way to the metric system, though the word still turns up in some regions when people describe the weight of cattle or farm produce informally.
How ARROBA is used
Mainly a historical measure, though still heard informally in parts of Latin America when describing livestock or produce weight.
- The old ledger priced the wine by the arroba instead of the litre.
- A rancher might still weigh a bull in arroba in some rural areas.
- The market once sold olive oil by the arroba before metric measures arrived.
- One arroba of wheat filled a good part of the storage sack.
- Historians converting old prices first need the local value of an arroba.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARROBA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ARROBA
1 longer words begin with ARROBA.
Shorter words from the letters in ARROBA
Common questions about ARROBA
- Is ARROBA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARROBA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARROBA worth?
- ARROBA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARROBA mean?
- A traditional unit of weight or liquid volume used historically in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, with a value that varied by country and commodity.
- What letters can be added to ARROBA?
- ARROBA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ARROBA:
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