CONTO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CONTO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CONTO?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CONTO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CONTO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
contosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CONTO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CONTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 37,345.
What does CONTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A unit of currency formerly used in Portugal and Brazil, equal to one thousand escudos or one thousand mil-reis respectively.
A conto served as a convenient way to speak of large sums of money without writing out long strings of zeros, much as English speakers today might say a million rather than spelling out the full number. Portugal used the conto as an informal unit within its escudo currency until it adopted the euro, while Brazil applied the same term to its own mil-reis and later cruzeiro systems. The word ultimately comes from the Latin computus, meaning a reckoning or calculation, the same root that gives English the word account.
How CONTO is used
Historical; found mainly in older Portuguese and Brazilian financial records and in writing about the economic history of those countries.
- The old ledger recorded the debt in conto rather than escudos.
- A single conto once represented a considerable fortune in Lisbon.
- Brazilian newspapers of the period quoted prices in conto.
- Historians converted the conto figures into modern currency values.
- The merchant kept his accounts in conto for decades.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CONTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CONTO
Showing 24 of 28 words that begin with CONTO.
Words with CONTO inside
4 words contain CONTO in the middle. Words that start with CONTO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CONTO
Common questions about CONTO
- Is CONTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CONTO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CONTO worth?
- CONTO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CONTO mean?
- A unit of currency formerly used in Portugal and Brazil, equal to one thousand escudos or one thousand mil-reis respectively.
- What letters can be added to CONTO?
- CONTO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CONTO:
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