AFALD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. AFALD is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AFALD?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AFALD is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AFALD
No single letter turns AFALD into another word.
How AFALD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AFALD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does AFALD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsarchaic
Sincere, honest, or single-minded.
Afald comes from Older Scots and literally means onefold, built the same way as manifold means many-fold. From that literal sense of being a single, undivided thing, it grew to describe a person who is sincere and straightforward rather than double-dealing. Related spellings such as aefald and afawld appear in older texts, reflecting the inconsistent spelling of Scots before it was standardised. Afald belongs to a small set of dialect words, like syne and yett, that never gained a single-word equivalent in standard English.
How AFALD is used
Scots dialect and archaic; found chiefly in older Scottish writing rather than in current speech.
- The old chronicle praised him as afald in all his dealings.
- Afald described a friend who never spoke with two faces.
- A glossary of Scots terms lists afald beside its variant aefald.
- The judge was known as an afald man, plain and honest.
- Afald survives today mainly in dictionaries of older Scots.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AFALD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in AFALD
1 words end in AFALD. Useful as a back hook: play AFALD onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in AFALD
Common questions about AFALD
- Is AFALD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AFALD is not in it.
- How many points is AFALD worth?
- AFALD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AFALD mean?
- Sincere, honest, or single-minded.
- What letters can be added to AFALD?
- No single letter can be added to AFALD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AFALD:
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