ZHO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZHO is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 15 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept ZHO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZHO is to know. It scores 15 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZHO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZHO scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ZHO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What stands out about ZHO
- At 15 points, ZHO is among the ten highest-scoring 3-letter words we list.
- ZHO averages 5 points a tile — one of 118 words that dense.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZHO mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A hybrid of a yak and a domestic cow.
The zho is bred across the Himalaya for a plain practical reason: it works at altitudes where cattle fail and gives more milk than a yak. English has taken the name in at least six spellings, because it arrived by ear from several languages rather than from any written source.
How ZHO is used
Countable: a zho, two zhos. Also written dzo and zo.
- A zho carries a load where a cow would not go at all.
- The herd is half yak and half zho.
- A zho gives more milk and less wool than either parent.
- They keep a zho for the fields and a yak for the high pasture.
- The spelling zho is one of six English has tried.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZHO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZHO
7 longer words begin with ZHO.
Words ending in ZHO
1 words end in ZHO. Useful as a back hook: play ZHO onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZHO inside
2 words contain ZHO in the middle. Words that start with ZHO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZHO
Common questions about ZHO
- Is ZHO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZHO, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZHO worth?
- ZHO is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZHO mean?
- A hybrid of a yak and a domestic cow.
- What letters can be added to ZHO?
- ZHO takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ZHO:
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