ALFA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ALFA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALFA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALFA is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALFA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALFA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ALFA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,615.
What does ALFA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A tall, tough grass native to North Africa and southern Spain, used for making rope, paper, and esparto goods.
Alfa is the common name for esparto grass, a fibrous plant that grows wild across semi-arid regions of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and southern Spain. The tough leaves of alfa have been harvested for centuries to produce rope, baskets, sandals, and high-quality paper pulp.
How ALFA is used
Used mainly in agricultural, geographic, and papermaking contexts describing the plant itself.
- Workers in the hills once cut alfa by hand each autumn.
- The paper mill imported baled alfa from North Africa.
- Alfa fibers are strong enough to weave into sturdy rope.
- Farmers left the poorest slopes to wild alfa grass.
- Traditional sandals were plaited from dried alfa leaves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALFA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALFA
9 longer words begin with ALFA.
Words ending in ALFA
1 words end in ALFA. Useful as a back hook: play ALFA onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALFA inside
5 words contain ALFA in the middle. Words that start with ALFA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALFA
Common questions about ALFA
- Is ALFA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALFA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALFA worth?
- ALFA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALFA mean?
- A tall, tough grass native to North Africa and southern Spain, used for making rope, paper, and esparto goods.
- What letters can be added to ALFA?
- ALFA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ALFA:
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