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Is yahoo a Scrabble word?

Yes, yahoo is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle Yes
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of yahoo?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.Synonyms: yokel, loutderogatory

2. (cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.Examples: "1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit."

verb (English)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To give a cry of yahoo.informalintransitivetransitive

noun (English)

1. (fiction) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.Examples: "I therefore often begged his Favour to let me go among the Herds of Yahoos in the Neighbourhood, to which he always very graciouſly conſented, being perfectly convinced, that the Hatred I bore thoſe Brutes, would never ſuffer me to be corrupted by them; […]"

noun (English)

1. (informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.Examples: "But having two beaming Chief Yahoos on the cover is an implied seal of approval."; "Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn."; "Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all."informal

verb (English)

1. (Internet, informal, transitive, intransitive) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.Examples: "I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of."; "I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could."; "We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic."Internetinformalintransitivetransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "yahoo"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "yahoo"?

Scrabble
11 points
Y4
A1
H4
O1
O1
Words With Friends
9 points
Y4
A1
H3
O1
O1

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