GOMBO is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GOMBO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GOMBO?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GOMBO is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GOMBO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gombosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GOMBO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GOMBO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 224,070.
What does GOMBO mean in Scrabble?
noun
regionalNorth American
An alternate spelling of gumbo, referring to okra or to a stew thickened with it, once common in Louisiana Creole and French-influenced writing.
Gombo traces back to a West African word for the okra plant, carried into French and Creole speech in Louisiana before English writers settled on the now more familiar spelling gumbo. Older cookbooks and regional accounts sometimes still use gombo for both the vegetable itself and the thick soup made from it, alongside gumbo as the dominant modern spelling.
How GOMBO is used
Now uncommon; mostly found in older Louisiana Creole or French-influenced writing rather than current everyday use.
- The old family recipe called the stew gombo instead of gumbo.
- Market stalls in the bayou country once sold fresh gombo pods by the basket.
- A nineteenth-century cookbook listed gombo as a key ingredient in the soup.
- Her grandmother still calls the dish gombo, the way her own mother did.
- Linguists trace gombo back through Creole speech to a West African root.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GOMBO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GOMBO
1 longer words begin with GOMBO.
Shorter words from the letters in GOMBO
Common questions about GOMBO
- Is GOMBO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GOMBO, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GOMBO worth?
- GOMBO is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GOMBO mean?
- An alternate spelling of gumbo, referring to okra or to a stew thickened with it, once common in Louisiana Creole and French-influenced writing.
- What letters can be added to GOMBO?
- GOMBO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GOMBO:
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