CLOFF is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. CLOFF 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 CLOFF?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLOFF is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLOFF
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cloffsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLOFF scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLOFF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| f | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,176 thousand.
What does CLOFF mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A cleft or narrow gap, especially in a tree, in Scots use.
Cloff most often points to the fork where a tree trunk divides into branches, the spot where an animal or a bird can wedge itself out of the wind. Scots speech then stretched the same word sideways to any comparable split in rock or timber. Older English trade language used cloff in a wholly unrelated, technical sense too, for a small extra weight a merchant deducted after tax and tare were already subtracted, a custom long gone from ordinary commerce. The two uses share only the word, not the meaning, and the branch-fork sense of cloff is the one still remembered in dialect glossaries.
How CLOFF is used
Scots and now mainly dialect; the old trade sense is historical only.
- Birds nested in the cloff where the branches met.
- Rainwater collected in the cloff of the old oak.
- The climber wedged a boot into the cloff of the trunk.
- He pointed out the cloff halfway up the ash tree.
- A narrow cloff split the rock face in two.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLOFF and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLOFF
1 longer words begin with CLOFF.
Shorter words from the letters in CLOFF
Common questions about CLOFF
- Is CLOFF valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CLOFF is not in it.
- How many points is CLOFF worth?
- CLOFF is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLOFF mean?
- A cleft or narrow gap, especially in a tree, in Scots use.
- What letters can be added to CLOFF?
- CLOFF takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLOFF:
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