CAFF is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CAFF is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAFF?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAFF is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAFF
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAFF scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CAFF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 217,846.
What does CAFF mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
A cheap café, in British informal speech.
Caff is a British respelling that drops the accent and the pretension along with it. The two spellings name the same kind of place and carry entirely opposite expectations about the coffee.
How CAFF is used
Countable: a caff, two caffs. Informal and British.
- A caff with formica tables and a very good fry-up.
- The word caff drops the accent and the pretension.
- Two caffs on one street and a queue outside neither.
- A caff and a café are the same place named differently.
- Nobody calls an expensive place a caff.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAFF and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CAFF
16 longer words begin with CAFF.
Words ending in CAFF
2 words end in CAFF. Useful as a back hook: play CAFF onto a word already on the board.
Words with CAFF inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain CAFF somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CAFF are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CAFF
Common questions about CAFF
- Is CAFF valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAFF, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAFF worth?
- CAFF is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAFF mean?
- A cheap café, in British informal speech.
- What letters can be added to CAFF?
- CAFF takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CAFF:
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