Definitions for pinochles

pinochles pi·noch·le

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

Pinochles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 634 anagrams from letters in pinochles (cehilnops).

Definitions for pinochles

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 pinochles

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 pinochles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pinochles
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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