CHUFA is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CHUFA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHUFA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHUFA 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 CHUFA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
chufasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHUFA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHUFA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does CHUFA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A sedge plant, Cyperus esculentus, cultivated for its small, sweet, edible tubers known as tiger nuts.
Chufa grows as a grass-like sedge with underground tubers that are dried and eaten as a snack or ground to make the Spanish drink horchata de chufa. The plant is cultivated widely in parts of Spain, Africa, and the Americas, and its tubers have a nutty, slightly sweet flavor prized for both traditional food and modern health foods. Because chufa spreads readily through its tubers, it is also grown deliberately as a cover crop and wildlife feed, particularly favored by wild turkeys and waterfowl. Confusingly, an unmanaged form of the same species is also treated as a troublesome invasive weed in some agricultural regions.
How CHUFA is used
Found chiefly in agricultural, culinary, and botanical writing, especially in connection with Spanish horchata and tiger nuts.
- Farmers in Valencia grow chufa to make traditional horchata.
- The chufa tubers were dried in the sun before grinding.
- Wild turkeys are often drawn to fields planted with chufa.
- Chufa can become a persistent weed if left unmanaged.
- The market stall sold small bags of roasted chufa.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHUFA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHUFA
1 longer words begin with CHUFA.
Shorter words from the letters in CHUFA
Common questions about CHUFA
- Is CHUFA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHUFA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHUFA worth?
- CHUFA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHUFA mean?
- A sedge plant, Cyperus esculentus, cultivated for its small, sweet, edible tubers known as tiger nuts.
- What letters can be added to CHUFA?
- CHUFA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHUFA:
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