Definitions for pinochle

pinochle pi·noch·le

Spelling: [pee-nuhk-uh l, -nok-]
IPA: /ˈpi nʌk əl, -nɒk-/

Pinochle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in pinochle (cehilnop).

Definitions for pinochle

noun

  1. a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
  2. a meld of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game.

Origin of pinochle

1860-65, Americanism; Swiss German Binokel, Binoggel Swiss French binocle literally, pince-nez (see binocle1), probably adopted as synonym of the less c

Examples for pinochle

In five minutes they had got together a deck and a pile of chips and were shirt-sleeving it around a game of pinochle.

"Got change for a dollar, an' I'll settle that pinochle debt," offered the sergeant.

It's a diversion, much like pinochle or gin rummy were in the days when there were only three TV channels.

Euchre doesn't seem the same without a barful of people, and pinochle is not the game that Stein is good at.

The house was peaceful, that evening, and he enjoyed a game of pinochle with his wife.

It was like him to forget all about the herder and the promise of pinochle that night.

A few guests played pool or billiards, bridge, rummy, pinochle.

He's no sport at all, except maybe when it comes to pinochle.

Dirty trick to break up a pinochle game in weather like this.

Wilkins had proposed a pinochle game, and he and Jordan sat playing in the control room.

Word Value for pinochle
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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