Prefer is valid Scrabble Word

Is prefer a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is prefer valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PREFER in dictionary:

VERB:

to like better
like (one thing or person) better than another or others; tend to choose
submit (a charge or a piece of information) for consideration
promote or advance (someone) to a prestigious position
To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.
To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass.
To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general.
To set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above.
like better; value more highly
select as an alternative over another

promote over another
give preference to one creditor over another
like better

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hold in higher regard or esteem

Words related to PREFER

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Words that contain PREFER

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How to use PREFER in a sentence

Others prefer to indulge in peaceful reverie and to think only of the quaint old folks, who, as we are told in the song, still stay in the vicinity.
On the other hand, there are players who prefer to serve from the other extreme end.
I generally prefer bread-and-cheese, a milk pudding of some sort, and perhaps a little fruit for lunch if I have a match, in the afternoon.
It does look rather like a squall, and I am not ashamed to own that I should very much prefer to be in my little snug chamber at Bellisle, out of the reach of harm.
Although naturally brave and warlike, they prefer an indolent pastoral life, hunting being an occasional pastime.
Daggett is disposed to raise his views of the value of my effects, I should prefer to remain in custody, and see what I can do by private sale.
Also he forbade him to prefer obscure wars to such as were glorious, and border wars to those remote.
For the present the young gentlemen may appropriate whichever theory they prefer, and we will go back to the story.
It would have been more sensible to have had his teeth fixed, or gotten three new ones, the rest being all right, but it was natural to prefer the suit, and much less painful.
Perhaps if we had our choice we would prefer our own bed at home, but in the woods we do not have this choice.

With respect to the security required by the sixth section I would prefer persons residing within the United States, where the party can procure such to be his security.
They are no more to be blamed than Englishmen who prefer to reserve membership of their clubs to Europeans, but the fact remains and has to be reckoned with.
You may take your sunrise on the mountain, but I prefer this moonlight in the heather.
I prefer, however, to leave this possibility for the discussion of Mr.
I may be told that pigs were thought to be dirty until people took to keeping them clean, and that the animals are known to prefer their last state to their first.
If the wonders of our civilisation are doomed, we should prefer them to cease through lack of the minerals and mineral products that keep them going.
But I prefer to sit in an armchair and exercise my soul.
Yet, on the whole, I should prefer it done by a certain man in my own generation.
There were many tranquil, pleasant hours in store for me at that period, and I prefer to turn to them.
Notwithstanding, if you prefer to return to the Catholic faith and to the light of primitive days, send unto me your ambassadors and I will tell them what ye must do.
For horses, I sometimes use long straw for bedding, but, as a rule, I prefer to run everything through a feed-cutter.
I should rather prefer to mow the crop just as it commenced to blossom, and let the clover lie, spread out on the land, as left by the machine.
Which would she prefer? He was equally at her service.
It is easy to persuade ourselves that a matter is made plain by the light in which we prefer to see it, for it is our light.
I would prefer that the Senator would look over my remarks before quoting them so confidently.

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