CATALO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CATALO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CATALO?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CATALO is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CATALO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CATALO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CATALO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does CATALO mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologyNorth American
A hybrid animal bred from cattle and the American bison, raised for meat and hardiness in cold climates.
A catalo, more often spelled cattalo, results from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo, or bison, in an attempt to combine the bison's hardiness and resistance to harsh winters with the cow's higher yield of meat and milk. Ranchers in North America experimented with the cross from the nineteenth century onward, though the hybrid proved difficult to breed reliably and never replaced ordinary cattle on a large scale. Some modern breeding programmes use the newer name beefalo for a more carefully managed cross of the same two species, produced with better fertility than the older catalo experiments.
How CATALO is used
A specialised term in animal husbandry and ranching history, mostly replaced today by the spelling cattalo or the newer term beefalo.
- The ranch once kept a small herd of catalo for research.
- Breeders hoped the catalo would survive harsh winters better than ordinary cattle.
- A photograph from the 1900s shows an early catalo calf.
- The catalo inherited the bison's thick winter coat.
- Few ranches still raise catalo today.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CATALO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CATALO
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Common questions about CATALO
- Is CATALO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CATALO, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CATALO worth?
- CATALO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CATALO mean?
- A hybrid animal bred from cattle and the American bison, raised for meat and hardiness in cold climates.
- What letters can be added to CATALO?
- CATALO takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CATALO:
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