GEO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. GEO 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 4 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept GEO?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GEO is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GEO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
geosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GEO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in GEO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What stands out about GEO
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GEO mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectScots
A narrow steep-sided inlet cut into a rocky coast, especially in Orkney and Shetland.
Geo came to the northern isles with Old Norse, where gja meant a chasm, and it still names the places where the sea has worked its way along a line of weaker rock. A geo is narrower than a bay and usually has no beach at the head of it, just water and stone. The spelling wanders, and gio and goe turn up on the same maps, because surveyors wrote the word down long after people had been saying it.
How GEO is used
Takes an article like any other landform — a geo, the geo below the church — and the plural is geos.
- The path ends above a geo where fulmars nest on both walls.
- Waves boom in the geo whenever the wind comes from the north.
- Two geos cut into the headland within a hundred yards of each other.
- They lost a boat in the geo the winter before the war.
- The geo is dry at low tide and impassable at high.
- Every geo on that coast carries a name and a story about a drowning.
- Sheep graze right to the lip of the geo without a thought.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GEO and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see GEO
- In satellite work GEO stands for geostationary orbit, the ring above the equator where a satellite keeps pace with the turning earth.
- The prefix geo- in geography and geology comes from the Greek for earth and has nothing to do with the northern word.
- Geo was also a Chevrolet marque sold in North America through the 1990s.
Anagrams of GEO
The 3 tiles of GEO in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with GEO
Showing 24 of 268 words that begin with GEO.
Words with GEO inside
Showing 24 of 217 words that contain GEO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GEO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GEO
Common questions about GEO
- Is GEO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GEO, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GEO worth?
- GEO is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GEO mean?
- A narrow steep-sided inlet cut into a rocky coast, especially in Orkney and Shetland.
- What letters can be added to GEO?
- GEO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of GEO:
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