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Is taco a Scrabble word?

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

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Is taco a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (4 found)

ATOC,COAT,OCTA,TACO,

3-letter words (7 found)

ACT,CAT,COT,OAT,OCA,TAO,TOC,

2-letter words (3 found)

AT,TA,TO,

You can make 14 words from taco according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of taco

taco atco tcao ctao acto cato taoc atoc toac otac aotc oatc tcoa ctoa toca otca cota octa acot caot aoct oact coat ocat

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

Definitions and meaning of taco

taco

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: tä′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtɑkoʊ/, [ˈtʰɑkoʊ]
    • (US, historically) IPA(key): /ˈteɪkoʊ/, [ˈtʰeɪkoʊ]
  • (UK) enPR: tă′kō, IPA(key): /ˈtækəʊ/
    • (UK, historically) IPA(key): /ˈteɪkəʊ/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA(key): /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
    • (General Australian, New Zealand, historically) IPA(key): /ˈtæɪkəʊ/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)], [ˈtʰako(ː)]
  • Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧co

Noun

taco (plural tacos)

  1. (cooking) A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft or hard shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables and salsa.
  2. (US, slang) The vulva.
    Synonym: pink taco
  3. (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

taco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)

  1. (slang) To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.

Further reading

  • taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, coat, octa, octa-

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈta.ku]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈta.ko]

Verb

taco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish taco.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑko/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ko̞]
  • Syllabification(key): ta‧co

Noun

taco

  1. taco

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “taco”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Hyphenation: tà‧co

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. (cooking) taco (Mexican snack food)

Further reading

  • taco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

taco

  1. nominative singular of taca (“skin”)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.t͡sɔ/
  • Rhymes: -at͡sɔ
  • Syllabification: ta‧co

Noun

taco f

  1. vocative singular of taca

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aku

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. (sports) cue; bat; stick (any long implement used to hit the ball or puck in certain sports)
  2. (Brazil) bete-ombro
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. taco (a Mexican snack food)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

taco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtako/ [ˈt̪a.ko]
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Syllabification: ta‧co

Etymology 1

Mexican Spanish, from Old French tache (“bolt, nail”).

Noun

taco m (plural tacos)

  1. (Mexico, cooking) taco
  2. peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
  3. dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
  4. stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
  5. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) heel (of a shoe)
  6. (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
  7. (Chile) traffic jam
  8. (Spain) curse word, swear word
    Synonyms: juramento, palabrota, voto
    Empezó a soltar tacos. ― He started swearing.
  9. (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot
    Synonym: montón
  10. (Spain, colloquial, in the plural) years of age
    Synonyms: año, primavera
    Hoy cumplo veinticinco tacos. ― Today, I turn twenty-five years old.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: taco
See also
  • billar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

taco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tacar

Further reading

  • taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
  • “taco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

  • acto, cato, cota, toca

Swedish

Noun

taco c

  1. (cooking) a taco

Usage notes

The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English.

Declension

Derived terms

  • tacoskal (“taco shell”)

References

  • taco in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian tacco.

Noun

taco m (plural tachi)

  1. heel

Source: wiktionary.org