HAO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. HAO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAO?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAO is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HAO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does HAO mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A unit of Vietnamese money, worth a tenth of a dong.
The hao is one of two subunits the main currency once had, and neither is in use now: inflation removed both, and prices are quoted in thousands of the larger unit instead. It survives on paper and in tables of currencies.
How HAO is used
Countable: a hao, two hao. Historical in practice.
- A hao has bought nothing within living memory.
- The table lists the dong and the hao together.
- Prices were once quoted in hao and now are not.
- Two hao would not have covered a bus fare in 1990.
- The word hao appears in reference works and nowhere else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HAO
The 3 tiles of HAO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HAO
3 longer words begin with HAO.
Words ending in HAO
1 words end in HAO. Useful as a back hook: play HAO onto a word already on the board.
Words with HAO inside
11 words contain HAO in the middle. Words that start with HAO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HAO
Common questions about HAO
- Is HAO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAO, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAO worth?
- HAO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAO mean?
- A unit of Vietnamese money, worth a tenth of a dong.
- What letters can be added to HAO?
- HAO takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HAO:
Open HAO in the Word Finder