CHIAO is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CHIAO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHIAO?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHIAO is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHIAO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
chiaosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHIAO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHIAO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about CHIAO
- CHIAO runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHIAO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A monetary unit of China equal to one tenth of a yuan, also spelled jiao.
Chiao follows the Wade-Giles system of writing Chinese sounds in the Latin alphabet, an older romanization that English dictionaries kept alongside the now more common pinyin spelling jiao. Chinese currency divides the yuan into ten chiao, and each chiao further divides into ten fen, a decimal structure similar to how a dollar splits into ten dimes and a hundred cents. English-language writing about Chinese money before pinyin became standard often used chiao, and the spelling still turns up in older reference books, coin catalogs, and some word-game dictionaries.
How CHIAO is used
A specialist term seen mainly in older writing about Chinese currency and in coin-collecting references; jiao is now the more common spelling.
- The old guidebook listed prices in yuan and chiao.
- A single chiao bought very little even decades ago.
- The coin collection included several worn chiao pieces.
- He converted the chiao into fen for the smaller purchase.
- The exchange rate table still used the term chiao.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHIAO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHIAO
1 longer words begin with CHIAO.
Shorter words from the letters in CHIAO
Common questions about CHIAO
- Is CHIAO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHIAO, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHIAO worth?
- CHIAO is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHIAO mean?
- A monetary unit of China equal to one tenth of a yuan, also spelled jiao.
- What letters can be added to CHIAO?
- CHIAO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHIAO:
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