BACCO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. BACCO is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BACCO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BACCO is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BACCO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
baccosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BACCO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BACCO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What stands out about BACCO
- The same 5 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 BACCO mean in Scrabble?
noun
informaldialect
Tobacco, especially the kind smoked in a pipe.
Bacco is a clipped, spoken form of tobacco that sailors, farm workers and pipe smokers used long before it appeared in print. It is still heard in country speech and in fiction written to sound rustic or old-fashioned, carrying a homely, unhurried tone that the full word tobacco lacks.
How BACCO is used
Informal and regional; almost never used in writing meant to sound formal.
- He kept his bacco in a battered tin.
- The old sailor rolled his own bacco each morning.
- A pouch of bacco sat beside his pipe.
- She could smell bacco on his coat from the doorway.
- They shared a pinch of bacco while waiting out the rain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BACCO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BACCO
The 5 tiles of BACCO in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with BACCO
2 longer words begin with BACCO.
Words ending in BACCO
3 words end in BACCO. Useful as a back hook: play BACCO onto a word already on the board.
Words with BACCO inside
6 words contain BACCO in the middle. Words that start with BACCO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BACCO
Common questions about BACCO
- Is BACCO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BACCO is not in it.
- How many points is BACCO worth?
- BACCO is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BACCO mean?
- Tobacco, especially the kind smoked in a pipe.
- What letters can be added to BACCO?
- BACCO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BACCO:
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