Definitions for fiasco

fiasco fi·as·co

Spelling: [fee-as-koh or especially for 2, -ah-skoh]
IPA: /fiˈæs koʊ or especially for 2, -ˈɑ skoʊ/

Fiasco is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in fiasco (acfios).

Definitions for fiasco

noun

  1. a complete and ignominious failure.
  2. a round-bottomed glass flask for wine, especially Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright.

Origin of fiasco

1850-55; Italian: literally, bottle Germanic (see flask1); sense “failure” from Italian phrase far fiasco to fail, literally, to make a bottle, idiom of u

Examples for fiasco

This fiasco, due, I am told, to the jealous interference of the P.-L.

Better get a fiasco of Chianti ready—the old kind you have in the cellar.

Remember the fiasco of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra?

After that fiasco in Ireland you must go somewhere, for a time at least, out of the way.

The fiasco over Proposition 8, she notes, should have been a case for the Avengers, but they were now “obliterated.”

The Marchese lunched here alone with us to-day, and it was a fiasco.

The veteran political operative did realize the joy that national reporters took from the fiasco.

“It really came out of left field,” he says of the whole Donald Sterling fiasco.

Her first real failure, a fiasco—she really deserved a better fate.

It was a fiasco, but were some of the players screwing up on purpose?

Word Value for fiasco
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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