GUACO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. GUACO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GUACO?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUACO is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUACO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
guacosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GUACO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GUACO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does GUACO mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyregional
A climbing tropical American plant of the genus Mikania, whose leaves have traditionally been used, especially in the West Indies, as a folk remedy for snakebite.
Growers in the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America once relied on guaco leaves as an emergency treatment, crushing or chewing them and applying the paste to a snakebite wound while help was sought. Traditional healers also brewed the leaves into teas believed to ease fever and other ailments, though modern medicine has largely replaced such remedies with antivenom. The plant itself is a vigorous climbing vine that spreads over fences and other vegetation in warm, humid regions. Guaco survives today mainly in folk-medicine history and in regional plant names rather than in mainstream pharmacy.
How GUACO is used
A regional botanical term, chiefly historical, associated with Caribbean and Latin American folk medicine.
- Villagers once chewed guaco leaves after a snakebite.
- The vine known as guaco climbed over the old fence.
- Healers brewed guaco into a bitter tea for fever.
- Botanists catalogued several local varieties of guaco.
- Guaco still grows wild along the forest edge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUACO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GUACO
1 longer words begin with GUACO.
Shorter words from the letters in GUACO
Common questions about GUACO
- Is GUACO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUACO, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUACO worth?
- GUACO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUACO mean?
- A climbing tropical American plant of the genus Mikania, whose leaves have traditionally been used, especially in the West Indies, as a folk remedy for snakebite.
- What letters can be added to GUACO?
- GUACO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GUACO:
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