Is “Ghetto” a Scrabble word?

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Yes
GHETTO
Valid in at least one Scrabble dictionary

Valid in these dictionaries

SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
Valid
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
Valid
Large English Dictionary
General English word list
Unavailable

Meaning of Ghetto

noun
  1. 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. 2.An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.

  3. 3.An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

Synonyms: ivory tower

verb
  1. 1.To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

adjective
  1. 1.Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.

  2. 2.Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

  3. 3.Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.