BARRIO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BARRIO 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 BARRIO?
| 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 BARRIO 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 BARRIO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
barriosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BARRIO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BARRIO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,320.
What does BARRIO mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A district or neighbourhood in a Spanish-speaking town or city, or, in the United States, a Spanish-speaking quarter of a city.
Across Spain and Latin America, a barrio is an ordinary administrative subdivision, similar to how an English borough breaks into wards or parishes. In American usage the term narrowed over time to describe a mainly Hispanic residential area within a larger urban centre, often shaped by a shared immigrant history rather than by any official boundary line. Because such areas grow around community identity as much as administrative lines, a single American urban centre can contain several barrios recognised by name long before any map records them. The word passed into English directly from Spanish and now appears in English-language writing without translation.
How BARRIO is used
Standard in American English for a Spanish-speaking city district, and used more broadly for any town district in Spanish-language contexts.
- She grew up in a barrio on the edge of the city.
- The old barrio still holds its annual summer festival.
- Officials divided the town into a dozen barrios for record-keeping.
- Murals along the barrio walls told the neighbourhood's history.
- His grandparents opened their first shop in that same barrio.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARRIO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BARRIO
1 longer words begin with BARRIO.
Shorter words from the letters in BARRIO
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Common questions about BARRIO
- Is BARRIO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARRIO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARRIO worth?
- BARRIO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARRIO mean?
- A district or neighbourhood in a Spanish-speaking town or city, or, in the United States, a Spanish-speaking quarter of a city.
- What letters can be added to BARRIO?
- BARRIO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BARRIO:
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