CHICO is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CHICO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHICO?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHICO is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHICO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHICO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHICO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What does CHICO mean in Scrabble?
noun
regionalhistorical
The sapodilla, a tropical evergreen tree whose milky sap yields chicle, the traditional base of chewing gum.
Chico trees grow across Central America and parts of the Caribbean, prized both for their sweet brown fruit and for the latex tapped from their bark. Workers called chicleros once cut zigzag scars into the trunk to collect the sap, which was boiled down into chicle before synthetic gum bases became common. The same tree and its fruit are also known as sapodilla in many English-speaking regions. Chico wood is hard and durable, and was used by the ancient Maya for lintels that have survived for centuries.
How CHICO is used
A regional name, used mainly in Central America and in writing about the history of chewing gum.
- The chico grove had been tapped for chicle for generations.
- Farmers sold ripe chico fruit at the roadside market.
- The old lintel was carved from chico wood centuries ago.
- Chicleros still climb the chico trees during the rainy season.
- The recipe for old-fashioned gum began with chico sap.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHICO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHICO
7 longer words begin with CHICO.
Words with CHICO inside
6 words contain CHICO in the middle. Words that start with CHICO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHICO
Common questions about CHICO
- Is CHICO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHICO, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHICO worth?
- CHICO is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHICO mean?
- The sapodilla, a tropical evergreen tree whose milky sap yields chicle, the traditional base of chewing gum.
- What letters can be added to CHICO?
- CHICO takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHICO:
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