TONDO is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. TONDO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TONDO?
| 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 TONDO is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TONDO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tondosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TONDO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TONDO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,673.
What does TONDO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A circular painting or relief sculpture, a format especially associated with Italian Renaissance art.
Painters and sculptors working in a tondo had to compose figures within a perfect circle rather than the more usual rectangle, which forced different choices about balance and framing than a square canvas allows. Florentine workshops produced many of the best-known examples, often for domestic settings such as a round panel commissioned to mark a birth or a marriage. The word comes from the Italian for round, and art historians still use it untranslated when they discuss this particular circular format.
How TONDO is used
Used mainly in art history and museum contexts to describe circular paintings or reliefs, especially from the Italian Renaissance.
- The gallery's most famous tondo shows the Holy Family in a tight circular composition.
- Renaissance families sometimes commissioned a tondo to celebrate a child's birth.
- Fitting figures into a tondo required careful planning around the curved edge.
- The museum label explained why the painting was framed as a tondo.
- Sculptors also worked in relief within the round shape of a tondo.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TONDO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TONDO
1 longer words begin with TONDO.
Shorter words from the letters in TONDO
Common questions about TONDO
- Is TONDO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TONDO, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TONDO worth?
- TONDO is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TONDO mean?
- A circular painting or relief sculpture, a format especially associated with Italian Renaissance art.
- What letters can be added to TONDO?
- TONDO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
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