BARRICADO is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BARRICADO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BARRICADO?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BARRICADO is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BARRICADO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
barricadosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BARRICADO scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in BARRICADO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BARRICADO has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BARRICADO mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An older form of barricade: a quickly made barrier against attack or passage.
The spelling barricado belongs to older English, particularly the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and is now mostly met in historical novels. It was also used as a verb for fortifying or blocking a place, with the same meaning as the modern word.
How BARRICADO is used
Used rarely, in historical or deliberately old-fashioned writing.
- The defenders raised a barricado of casks across the gate.
- In the old play the soldiers hide behind a barricado.
- A rough barricado of timber blocked the alley.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARRICADO and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BARRICADO
4 longer words begin with BARRICADO.
Shorter words from the letters in BARRICADO
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Common questions about BARRICADO
- Is BARRICADO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARRICADO, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARRICADO worth?
- BARRICADO is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARRICADO mean?
- An older form of barricade: a quickly made barrier against attack or passage.
- What letters can be added to BARRICADO?
- BARRICADO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of BARRICADO:
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