CHAFT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHAFT 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 not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CHAFT?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHAFT is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHAFT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
chaftsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHAFT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHAFT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does CHAFT mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A Scots word for the jaw or the cheek.
Chaft names the jawbone or the side of the face in Scots speech, and it often turns up in the plural chafts for the whole jaw. The word sits in the same family as the English chops and chaps, both old words for the mouth and jaw area, and like them it carries a rough, physical tone rather than a clinical one. It survives mainly in older texts, ballads and regional speech rather than in formal writing today.
How CHAFT is used
Scots, and now mostly literary or regional rather than everyday standard speech.
- He took a blow square on the chaft.
- Her chaft ached after the long dentist visit.
- The old song describes a fighter with a broken chaft.
- A grin spread from ear to chaft.
- The boxer rubbed his sore chaft between rounds.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHAFT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHAFT
1 longer words begin with CHAFT.
Words ending in CHAFT
2 words end in CHAFT. Useful as a back hook: play CHAFT onto a word already on the board.
Words with CHAFT inside
4 words contain CHAFT in the middle. Words that start with CHAFT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHAFT
Common questions about CHAFT
- Is CHAFT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CHAFT is not in it.
- How many points is CHAFT worth?
- CHAFT is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHAFT mean?
- A Scots word for the jaw or the cheek.
- What letters can be added to CHAFT?
- CHAFT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHAFT:
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