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Is ciao a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ciao is a Scrabble US word. The word ciao is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is ciao a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ciao is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Yes. The word ciao is a Words With Friends word. The word ciao is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

CIAO,

3-letter words (1 found)

OCA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AI,IO,OI,

You can make 5 words from ciao according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ciao

ciao icao caio acio iaco aico cioa icoa coia ocia ioca oica caoi acoi coai ocai aoci oaci iaoc aioc ioac oiac aoic oaic

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word ciao. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in ciao.

Definitions and meaning of ciao

ciao

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao (hello, goodbye), from Venetian ciao (hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant), from Venetian s-ciao / s-ciavo (servant, slave), from Medieval Latin sclavus (Slav, slave), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavonia (Slavonia). Not related to Vietnamese chào (hello, goodbye).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ
  • Homophone: chow

Interjection

ciao

  1. Hello, hi.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello
  2. Bye, goodbye.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goodbye

Translations

Noun

ciao (plural ciaos)

  1. A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".

Usage notes

In UK and in US usage, ciao is considered pretentious by some.

Further reading

  • ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Coia, ICAO

Bavarian

Interjection

ciao

  1. (Sappada) hello, hi, ciao

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

French

Alternative forms

  • tchao

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao (hello, goodbye), from Venetian ciao (hello, goodbye; your (humble) servant), from Venetian s-ciao (servant, slave) or s-ciavo (servant, slave), from Medieval Latin sclavus (Slav, slave), related also to Italian schiavo, Italian Slav, slave and Old Venetian S-ciavón (Slav), from Latin Sclavonia (Slavonia).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃa.o/, /tʃaw/

Interjection

ciao

  1. ciao
    Synonyms: adieu, au revoir, salut, tschüs

Further reading

  • “ciao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Alternative forms

  • tschau

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao from Venetian ciao, ultimately from Latin sclavus. Doublet of Sklave and Slawe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃaʊ̯]

Interjection

ciao

  1. ciao

Further reading

  • “ciao” in Duden online
  • “ciao” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian ciao (hello, goodbye).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/

Interjection

ciao

  1. ciao

Synonyms

  • adeo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian s-ciao, sciavo (slave) (in particular the expression s-ciao vostro (literally (I am) your slave), in essence meaning "I am at your service", or "your humble servant"), from Medieval Latin sclavus (slave) (whence also standard Italian schiavo); in the Venetian language originally pronounced /stʃaʊ/. Development and use is similar to the Southern German and Central European greeting of servus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.o/
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Hyphenation: cià‧o

Interjection

ciao

  1. hello!
    Synonyms: salve (formal), buongiorno
  2. goodbye!
    Synonyms: arrivederla (formal), arrivederci, ci vediamo (colloquial)
    • Early 1940s, written by an unknown Italian partisan, Bella Ciao (Goodbye, beautiful!):

Derived terms

  • ciao ciao

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: tschau, tschavò
  • Bavarian: ciao
  • Bulgarian: ча́о (čáo)
  • Czech: čau
  • Dutch: tjo
  • Esperanto: ĉaŭ
  • Estonian: tšau, tsau, tšauki, tsauki
  • Finnish: tsau, tsaukki
  • French: ciao, tchao
  • German: tschau, ciao
  • Hungarian: csaó, csá
  • Interlingua: ciao
  • Japanese: チャオ (chao)
  • Latvian: čau
  • Macedonian: чао (čao)
  • Maltese: ċaw
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ciao
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ciao
  • Polish: ciao
  • Portuguese: tchau, chau, xau; ciao
  • Russian: ча́о (čáo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ћао
    Latin script: ćao
  • Slovak: čau
  • Slovene: čáo
  • Spanish: chao, chau
  • Turkish: çav
  • Ukrainian: ча́о (čáo)

Further reading

  • ciao on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Caio

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian ciao, from Venetian sciavo (slave), from Medieval Latin sclavus (slave), from Late Latin Sclavus (Slav) (as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Doublet of slave and slaver.

Interjection

ciao

  1. ciao

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian ciao, from Venetian sciavo (slave), from Medieval Latin sclavus (slave). This in turn is from Late Latin Sclavus (Slav), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. Doublet of slave and slavar.

Interjection

ciao

  1. ciao
    Synonyms: adjø, farvel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃau/

Interjection

ciao!

  1. Hello!
  2. Goodbye!

Spanish

Interjection

ciao

  1. Alternative spelling of chao

Source: wiktionary.org