AFOOT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. AFOOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AFOOT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AFOOT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AFOOT
No single letter turns AFOOT into another word.
How AFOOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AFOOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 24,897.
What stands out about AFOOT
- The letters of AFOOT run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AFOOT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Happening, in preparation, or in progress.
Afoot is almost always used as a predicate adjective after a linking verb, most famously in the phrase something is afoot, suggesting that a plan or event is quietly developing. The word originally meant literally on foot, walking rather than riding, and that older, literal sense still turns up occasionally in older texts. The figurative sense of a scheme in motion is by far the more common use now.
How AFOOT is used
Predicate adjective; the phrase something is afoot suggests a plan or mischief in progress.
- Sherlock Holmes sensed that something was afoot in the quiet village.
- Rumors of a merger were already afoot by Monday morning.
- Change was afoot at the company long before the announcement.
- Travelers in earlier centuries often journeyed afoot for miles.
- Trouble seemed afoot the moment the lights flickered.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AFOOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in AFOOT
Common questions about AFOOT
- Is AFOOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AFOOT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AFOOT worth?
- AFOOT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AFOOT mean?
- Happening, in preparation, or in progress.
- What letters can be added to AFOOT?
- No single letter can be added to AFOOT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AFOOT:
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