PICARO is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PICARO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PICARO?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PICARO is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PICARO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
picarosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PICARO scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PICARO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does PICARO mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A roguish adventurer who drifts through society living by his wits, the typical hero of the Spanish picaresque tale.
Picaro was borrowed from Spanish, where it named a lowborn vagabond who served one master after another. The figure gave its name to the picaresque novel, a form that began in sixteenth-century Spain and later shaped fiction across Europe. In modern English the word describes a charming scoundrel more than a dangerous criminal.
How PICARO is used
Mostly a literary-critical term; the feminine partner is picara.
- The hero of the book is a picaro who sleeps in barns and lives on borrowed bread.
- A picaro never stays in one town long enough to be caught.
- Critics often cite Lazarillo as the first true picaro of European fiction.
- He told his story like a picaro, boasting and apologising in the same breath.
- The film casts him as a lovable picaro rather than a villain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PICARO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PICARO
5 longer words begin with PICARO.
Shorter words from the letters in PICARO
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Common questions about PICARO
- Is PICARO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PICARO, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PICARO worth?
- PICARO is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PICARO mean?
- A roguish adventurer who drifts through society living by his wits, the typical hero of the Spanish picaresque tale.
- What letters can be added to PICARO?
- PICARO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PICARO:
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