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Is tao a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tao is a Scrabble US word. The word tao is worth 3 points in Scrabble:

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You can make 5 words from 'tao' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'tao'

OAT 3TAO 3

2 letters words from 'tao'

AT 2TA 2
TO 2 

All 3 letters words made out of tao

tao ato toa ota aot oat

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Definitions and meaning of tao

tao

Alternative forms

  • dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daʊ/, /taʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Proper noun

tao

  1. (Chinese philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature, or way to live one's life.

Noun

tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)

  1. (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
    Synonym: zen
    the tao of archery
  2. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

See also

  • ananke

Anagrams

  • AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, To'a, oat, toa

Bikol Central

Verb

taó

  1. to give

Butuanon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau.

Noun

tao

  1. person; human

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑoˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑo̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑo
  • Syllabification: ta‧o

Verb

tao

  1. inflection of takoa:
    1. indicative present connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Etymology 2

From Chinese 道 (dào).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑo/, [ˈt̪ɑo̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑo
  • Syllabification: ta‧o

Noun

tao

  1. tao
Declension

Anagrams

  • oat, ota

French

Noun

tao m (plural taos)

  1. (philosophy) Tao

Further reading

  • “tao” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒoː]
  • Hyphenation: tao
  • Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 道 (dào, “way, path”).

Noun

tao

  1. tao
Declension
Derived terms
  • taoista
  • taoizmus

Etymology 2

Abbreviation from the name of the act on társasági adó és osztalékadó (“corporate tax and dividend tax”).

Noun

tao

  1. Acronym of társasági adó és osztalékadó.
Declension
Derived terms
  • taózás
  • taózik

References

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau.

Noun

tao

  1. person
  2. human

Italian

Alternative forms

  • dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.o/
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Hyphenation: tà‧o

Noun

tao m (invariable)

  1. (philosophy) Tao

Derived terms

  • taoismo
  • taoista

Anagrams

  • -ato

Japanese

Romanization

tao

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たお

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuq. Compare Indonesian taruh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [to]

Noun

tao

  1. act, action
  2. preparation

Verb

tao

  1. to do
  2. to prepare, arm, take precautions

Related terms

Mandarin

Romanization

tao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tāo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of táo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tǎo.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tào.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maori

Noun

tao

  1. spear

Samoan

Noun

tao

  1. spear

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tao (ma class, plural matao)

  1. arch

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • tauo, tau (obsolete)
  • tawo (obsolete)

Etymology

From tawo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Thao caw, Ilocano tao, Cebuano tawo, and Motu tau.

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.ʔo/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧o

Noun

tao

  1. human, human being, person, man
  2. one of the faces of a coin
    Synonym: tihaya
  3. husband
  4. a person left alone in a place as a guard or caretaker
    Synonyms: bantay, tanod

Related terms

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ta.ˈʔo/

Adjective

taó

  1. (archaic) mortal

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (North Central Vietnam) tau

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *soː (“I; me”).

There are 1st person single pronouns in Northern Austroasiatic branches with back vocalism and null-initial such as Mang ʔuː⁴, Khmu [Cuang] ʔoʔ, Riang [Sak] ʔoʔ¹, Pnar o. However, the only case of competing *s- vs. null-onset in Vietic is Proto-Vietic *suh ~ *ʔuh (“nest”), which gave rise to Vietnamese tổ and ổ respectively.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

tao • (傮, 蚤, 𠋺)

  1. (impolite, familiar, disrepectful or hostile) I/me
    Antonyms: mày, mi

Yami

Noun

tao

  1. person; human

Source: wiktionary.org
  • TANYARD, the section of a tannery containing the vats.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)