GAMBO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. GAMBO is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GAMBO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GAMBO is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GAMBO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GAMBO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GAMBO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does GAMBO mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
A simple, low farm cart or hay-wagon, traditionally pulled by a horse.
A gambo was built plainly, with a flat or slightly raised bed, and was used on farms for hauling hay, root crops, or other loose loads rather than for passengers. The word is recorded chiefly in Welsh and West of England farming dialect, where such carts remained common well into the twentieth century. As tractors and trailers replaced horse-drawn transport, the gambo itself largely disappeared from working farms, and the word now survives mainly in local memory and dialect glossaries.
How GAMBO is used
Dialect term from Welsh and West of England farming speech, now rare and mostly historical rather than part of everyday vocabulary.
- The farmer loaded the gambo with freshly cut hay before the rain came.
- An old wooden gambo still stood rotting in the corner of the barn.
- Her grandfather remembered riding on the back of a gambo as a child.
- They pulled the gambo up the lane behind a tired old horse.
- The museum display included a restored gambo from a nearby farm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GAMBO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GAMBO
12 longer words begin with GAMBO.
Shorter words from the letters in GAMBO
Common questions about GAMBO
- Is GAMBO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GAMBO is not in it.
- How many points is GAMBO worth?
- GAMBO is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GAMBO mean?
- A simple, low farm cart or hay-wagon, traditionally pulled by a horse.
- What letters can be added to GAMBO?
- GAMBO takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GAMBO:
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