CUATRO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CUATRO 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 CUATRO?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUATRO is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUATRO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cuatrosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUATRO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CUATRO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does CUATRO mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
A small, guitar-like stringed instrument, traditionally with four courses of strings, used in the folk and popular music of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Despite its name, meaning four in Spanish, a modern cuatro often has more than four individual strings, since many versions pair the strings in courses of two for a fuller sound. The instrument plays a central role in Venezuelan and Puerto Rican folk music, where it usually provides rhythmic strumming beneath a melody carried by voice or another instrument. Builders and players vary the exact tuning and body shape from country to country, so a Venezuelan cuatro differs somewhat from its Puerto Rican relative.
How CUATRO is used
Used mainly in discussions of Latin American and Caribbean folk music, especially Venezuelan and Puerto Rican traditions.
- The band's rhythm rested on a strummed cuatro beneath the singer's voice.
- She learned to play the cuatro from her grandfather in Puerto Rico.
- A skilled cuatro player can carry an entire folk ensemble alone.
- The workshop displayed cuatros of different sizes and tunings.
- Venezuelan folk music almost always features a cuatro somewhere in the arrangement.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUATRO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CUATRO
The 6 tiles of CUATRO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CUATRO
1 longer words begin with CUATRO.
Shorter words from the letters in CUATRO
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Common questions about CUATRO
- Is CUATRO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUATRO, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUATRO worth?
- CUATRO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUATRO mean?
- A small, guitar-like stringed instrument, traditionally with four courses of strings, used in the folk and popular music of Latin America and the Caribbean.
- What letters can be added to CUATRO?
- CUATRO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CUATRO:
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