MONDO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MONDO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MONDO?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MONDO is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MONDO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
mondosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MONDO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MONDO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 56,018.
What does MONDO mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalNorth Americanhumorous
Extremely large, intense, or remarkable; used informally as an intensifier before a noun or adjective, in the style of a mock-Italian phrase.
Mondo entered casual English slang from the title of the 1960s Italian film Mondo Cane, which spawned a wave of shockumentary movies known collectively as the mondo genre for their sensational, often exaggerated content. From there mondo jumped into everyday slang as a playful intensifier, stuck in front of a noun or adjective to mean something like huge, extreme, or seriously impressive, as in mondo weird or mondo bizarro. Speakers reach for mondo mainly for comic or ironic effect rather than in careful or formal writing, and its popularity peaked in casual American slang of the 1980s and 1990s. It survives today mostly as a knowingly retro or humorous flourish rather than as ordinary vocabulary.
How MONDO is used
Informal, mainly North American slang used as a comic intensifier before a noun or adjective, as in mondo weird.
- That haunted house was mondo scary.
- He described the traffic jam as mondo frustrating.
- The party turned into a mondo disaster by midnight.
- She called the whole plan mondo bizarre.
- It was a mondo strange coincidence.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MONDO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MONDO
1 longer words begin with MONDO.
Words with MONDO inside
4 words contain MONDO in the middle. Words that start with MONDO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MONDO
Common questions about MONDO
- Is MONDO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MONDO, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MONDO worth?
- MONDO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MONDO mean?
- Extremely large, intense, or remarkable; used informally as an intensifier before a noun or adjective, in the style of a mock-Italian phrase.
- What letters can be added to MONDO?
- MONDO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MONDO:
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