MANO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. MANO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MANO?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MANO is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MANO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MANO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in MANO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about MANO
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 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 MANO mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A hand-held stone used with a flat stone base, called a metate, to grind corn or other grain.
A mano is rubbed back and forth or in circles against the metate's surface, crushing grain caught between the two stones into flour, a method used across the Americas long before mechanical mills. Archaeologists rely on found manos and metates as evidence of how earlier peoples processed food.
How MANO is used
Used in archaeology and in traditional Latin American cooking.
- The mano fit smoothly into the worn hollow of the metate.
- She ground the dried corn using a stone mano.
- Archaeologists found a mano among the buried cooking tools.
- Grinding maize with a mano takes practice and patience.
- The museum displayed an ancient mano beside its metate.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MANO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MANO
The 4 tiles of MANO in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with MANO
Showing 24 of 31 words that begin with MANO.
Words ending in MANO
2 words end in MANO. Useful as a back hook: play MANO onto a word already on the board.
Words with MANO inside
17 words contain MANO in the middle. Words that start with MANO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MANO
Common questions about MANO
- Is MANO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MANO, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MANO worth?
- MANO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MANO mean?
- A hand-held stone used with a flat stone base, called a metate, to grind corn or other grain.
- What letters can be added to MANO?
- MANO takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of MANO:
Open MANO in the Word Finder