GIO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. GIO 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 not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GIO?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GIO is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GIO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GIO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in GIO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 749.
What does GIO mean in Scrabble?
noun
regionaldialect
A narrow, steep-sided inlet or chasm cut into a sea cliff, the spelling most often used for this feature in word-game dictionaries.
A gio forms where the sea has worn a deep, narrow gap into the rock of a coastline, often too tight for a boat to enter safely. Gio is the spelling that Scrabble and crossword word lists tend to prefer over its rarer cousin goe.
How GIO is used
Regional; used chiefly in Orkney and Shetland to describe this coastal feature.
- Seabirds nest on the ledges of the gio below the cliff path.
- The boat could not pass through the narrow gio at low tide.
- Waves crash loudly inside the gio during a storm.
- Local maps mark each gio along this stretch of coast by name.
- We climbed down to look into the gio from above.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GIO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GIO
2 longer words begin with GIO.
Words ending in GIO
10 words end in GIO. Useful as a back hook: play GIO onto a word already on the board.
Words with GIO inside
Showing 24 of 273 words that contain GIO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GIO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GIO
Common questions about GIO
- Is GIO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GIO is not in it.
- How many points is GIO worth?
- GIO is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GIO mean?
- A narrow, steep-sided inlet or chasm cut into a sea cliff, the spelling most often used for this feature in word-game dictionaries.
- What letters can be added to GIO?
- GIO takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of GIO:
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