BROMO is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BROMO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BROMO?
| 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 BROMO is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BROMO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bromosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BROMO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BROMO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 112,035.
What does BROMO mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalNorth Americanhistorical
An effervescent medicinal preparation containing a bromide compound, once taken as a headache, hangover or upset-stomach remedy, or a dose of such a preparation.
Mid-twentieth-century American drugstores sold a fizzy bromo as a common remedy for a pounding headache, the mixture dissolving in water into a bubbling drink meant to settle both stomach and nerves at once. Speakers of the period would casually ask for a bromo the way someone today might ask for a painkiller, the word standing in for the whole category of bromide-based remedies rather than one specific brand. Chemists also use bromo in a completely different, technical sense, as a combining form meaning containing bromine, seen in the names of compounds such as bromobenzene, with no connection to any medicine. Because bromide compounds fell out of medical favor over safety concerns, a bromo in the older remedy sense now sounds distinctly dated, met mainly in older fiction and advertising rather than in current speech.
How BROMO is used
Informal and largely historical, chiefly North American; recalled from mid-twentieth-century speech and advertising for a fizzy bromide headache remedy, now rarely used.
- He asked the pharmacist for a bromo to settle his headache.
- She stirred the bromo into a glass of water and drank it down.
- The old advertisement promised a bromo would cure any hangover.
- Grandfather always kept a tin of bromo powder in the medicine cabinet.
- The novel's hero reached for a bromo after a sleepless night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BROMO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BROMO
The 5 tiles of BROMO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BROMO
7 longer words begin with BROMO.
Words with BROMO inside
2 words contain BROMO in the middle. Words that start with BROMO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BROMO
Common questions about BROMO
- Is BROMO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BROMO, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BROMO worth?
- BROMO is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BROMO mean?
- An effervescent medicinal preparation containing a bromide compound, once taken as a headache, hangover or upset-stomach remedy, or a dose of such a preparation.
- What letters can be added to BROMO?
- BROMO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BROMO:
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