arroba

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6

Definition of arroba

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical)A traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
See all 3 definitions

noun

  1. (historical)A traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
  2. (historical)A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 14.7 kilograms.
  3. (historical)A traditional Spanish unit of liquid measure, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 15 liters.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Spanish and Portuguese arroba, from Old Spanish arroua and Old Galician-Portuguese arrova, from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic اَلرُّبْع (ar-rubʕ, “one-fourth”) in reference to its making up one fourth of a quintal.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to arroba to make another valid word.

Find your best play with arroba

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes arroba, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.