BUFFA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. BUFFA 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 13 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept BUFFA?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUFFA is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUFFA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
buffasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUFFA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUFFA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| f | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does BUFFA mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
A performer who takes the comic female role in Italian opera, or comic opera in that same style.
Buffa is the feminine counterpart to buffo, the stock comic performer of eighteenth-century Italian opera, and the term also names the genre itself in the phrase opera buffa, comic opera built around ordinary characters rather than gods and kings. The comic style stood opposite the serious opera seria, with quicker patter, everyday plots and singers chosen for wit as much as voice. English writers borrowed buffa straight from Italian without translating it, and it still turns up mostly inside that fixed phrase.
How BUFFA is used
Chiefly musical, and mostly seen inside the phrase opera buffa rather than standing alone.
- The soprano built her career on buffa roles rather than tragic ones.
- Opera buffa favoured a buffa lead over a solemn heroine.
- Mozart wrote several buffa parts full of quick, comic patter.
- Critics called the singer a natural buffa, sharp in timing and light in voice.
- The programme listed the work simply as a buffa in two acts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUFFA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUFFA
11 longer words begin with BUFFA.
Shorter words from the letters in BUFFA
Common questions about BUFFA
- Is BUFFA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUFFA, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUFFA worth?
- BUFFA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUFFA mean?
- A performer who takes the comic female role in Italian opera, or comic opera in that same style.
- What letters can be added to BUFFA?
- BUFFA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUFFA:
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