Yes. OLIO is a valid word.
OLIO is valid in the North American word list used for the Scrabble board game and other crossword tile games.
OLIO is in the NASPA Word List 2023 (NWL2023), the North American list that Tileside uses for challenges and the one used in club and tournament play.
About OLIO
OLIO is a spicy stew of meat and vegetables from Spain and Portugal, and by extension any miscellaneous mixture or collection; its plural is OLIOS. OLIO uses two O tiles and an I with a single L. Remember it with OLEO, margarine: one letter different, and both are vowel dumps. Variety shows in old theaters also used olio for the mixed acts performed in front of the curtain. Spanish cooks call the stew olla podrida, and English borrowed a shorter form.
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OLIO scores 4 points
Before any bonus squares: O 1 + L 1 + I 1 + O 1 = 4. On a double-word square that's 8, on a triple-word 12, and every letter bonus under one of these tiles is applied first.
Example: OLIO as the first play
Later in the game, put the O on a 3L square and OLIO is worth 6 before any word bonus.
Hooks: one tile makes a new word
Longer words from OLIO
Other forms of OLIO (1):
Change one tile
Swap any one letter of OLIO and these are still words:
- OLEOsame as MARGARINE
Same letters, other words
No other word in the list uses exactly the letters O, L, I and O.
Add one tile: words from these letters plus one more
OLIO + B
- OBOLIform of OBOLUS: a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram
OLIO + E
- LOOIEa lieutenant of the armed forces
OLIO + F
- FOLIOthe system of numbering pages
OLIO + P
- POLIOan acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
OLIO + S
OLIO + V
- OVOLIform of OVOLO: a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse
Memory tip
OLIO is a stew of many things, or any mixed collection, a hodgepodge.
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