Definitions for picaro

picaro pic·a·ro

Spelling: [pik-uh-roh, pee-kuh-]
IPA: /ˈpɪk əˌroʊ, ˈpi kə-/

Picaro is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in picaro (aciopr).

Definitions for picaro

noun

  1. a rogue or vagabond.

Origin of picaro

First recorded in 1615-25, picaro is from the Spanish word pícaro rogue

Examples for picaro

There was enough of the “picaro” in his countenance, to inspire me with confidence that he could be suborned for my purpose.

Master Reynard, in that romance of the Middle Ages of which he is the hero, is something like a picaro.

Most of them on leaving the Court uttered some invective against "the picaro who had sworn their lives away."

The picaro, in fact, is the direct descendant and the legitimate child of the debased knight-errant.

Well, picaro,” I said to the man who was moaning, “what is the matter with you?

The picaro was the fungus which grew out of this mass of corruption.

It portrays the life and fortunes of the picaro—the adventurer who tries all roads to fortune.

The successor of the knight-errant, the picaro, was a good deal like the last of the line preceding, with much the same features.

Word Value for picaro
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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