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Yes. The word chao is a Scrabble US word. The word chao is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word chao is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

CHAO,

3-letter words (7 found)

ACH,CHA,HAO,HOA,HOC,OCA,OCH,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,CH,HA,HO,OH,

You can make 13 words from chao according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of chao

chao hcao caho acho haco ahco choa hcoa coha ocha hoca ohca caoh acoh coah ocah aoch oach haoc ahoc hoac ohac aohc oahc

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Definitions and meaning of chao

chao

Galician

Alternative forms

  • chan

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin planus (“flat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃaʊ̯], [ˈt͡ʃaw]

Noun

chao m (plural chaos)

  1. Alternative form of chan (“plain, plateau; ground”)

Derived terms

  • Chao

Adjective

chao (feminine chá, masculine plural chaos, feminine plural chás)

  1. Alternative form of chan (“flat”)

References

  • “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “chao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “chao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “chan” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Alternative forms

  • chau

Etymology

Borrowed from French tchao, German tschau, Italian ciao, Spanish chau (but only in the sense of "goodbye").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/

Interjection

chao

  1. (neologism, often informal) goodbye
    Synonyms: adio, til rivido, til
    Antonyms: saluto, hola

Mandarin

Romanization

chao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of chāo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of cháo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of chǎo.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of chào.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • chau

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of esclavo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/ [ˈt͡ʃa.o]
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Syllabification: cha‧o

Interjection

chao

  1. (Latin America, some parts of Spain) bye, goodbye

Further reading

  • “chao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

chao

  1. Ki class inflected form of -ao.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [caːw˧˧]

Etymology 1

From a form of Hokkien 醬／酱 (chiùⁿ) (SV: tương). Compare Thai เต้าเจี้ยว (dtâo-jîao), Lao ເຕົ້າຈ້ຽວ (taochiāu), Malay taoco, taucu. Doublet of tương.

Noun

chao • (洲)

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) fermented bean curd
    Synonym: đậu phụ nhự

Etymology 2

Verb

chao • (洲)

  1. to glide (in the air)
Derived terms

Anagrams

  • choa

Source: wiktionary.org