Is “Ghetto” a Scrabble word?
Yes
GHETTO
Valid in at least one Scrabble dictionary
Valid in these dictionaries
SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
Large English Dictionary
General English word list
Meaning of Ghetto
noun
1.An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
2.An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
3.An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
Synonyms: ivory tower
verb
1.To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
adjective
1.Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
2.Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
3.Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.