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Is chorizo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word chorizo is a Scrabble US word. The word chorizo is worth 21 points in Scrabble:

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Is chorizo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chorizo is a Scrabble UK word and has 21 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

CHORIZO,

5-letter words (3 found)

CHIRO,CHOIR,ICHOR,

4-letter words (10 found)

CHIZ,COHO,COIR,HOOR,HORI,ORZO,RICH,ROCH,ZOIC,ZORI,

3-letter words (20 found)

CHI,COO,COR,COZ,HIC,HOC,HOI,HOO,ICH,OCH,OHO,OOH,OOR,ORC,RHO,RIZ,ROC,ROO,ZHO,ZOO,

2-letter words (9 found)

CH,HI,HO,IO,OH,OI,OO,OR,ZO,

You can make 43 words from chorizo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of chorizo

chorizo

Alternative forms

  • choritso, chorizzo (spellings affected by the 'hyper-foreign' pronunciations with /ts/)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/, /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/
  • (Britain, Ireland, proscribed) enPR: chəritsō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/ or /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/

Noun

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

  1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.

Related terms

  • chouriço, chaurice

Translations

Further reading

  • chorizo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • “chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
  • “Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. chorizo

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.θo]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.so]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
  • Syllabification: cho‧ri‧zo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo, either way from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. a type of sausage
  2. (Uruguay) a foolish person
    Synonym: longaniza
  3. (vulgar, slang) a penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
  4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
    Synonym: corrupción
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Basque: txorizo
  • → Catalan: xoriço
  • → English: chorizo
  • → French: chorizo
  • → Swedish: chorizo

Etymology 2

From chori, from Caló chorar (“to steal”).

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. (Spain) a crook
  2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket
    Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

Adjective

chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

  1. (vulgar, Chile) stuck-up, haughty

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chorizo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

References

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

Noun

chorizo c

  1. chorizo

Declension

Declension

  • chorizo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • chorizo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org