ELFING is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. ELFING 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ELFING?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ELFING is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELFING
Front hooks — 1
selfingBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ELFING scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ELFING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does ELFING mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectarchaic
To tangle or mat hair into knots, as in the -ing form of the old verb elf.
Elfing is built from the old verb elf by adding the ordinary -ing ending, following the same pattern seen in walking or singing. Folk belief once blamed the effect on mischievous elves said to visit sleepers at night, which is how the verb picked up its name in the first place. Modern dictionaries keep elfing chiefly as a curiosity drawn from older dialect glossaries rather than as a word anyone still uses today.
How ELFING is used
Found in older dialect writing rather than modern English.
- The wind kept elfing her hair into knots.
- He complained of the tangles elfing his beard.
- Old stories blamed elfing hair on mischievous spirits.
- She spent an hour brushing out the elfing curls.
- Damp weather always left her hair elfing by evening.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELFING and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ELFING
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Common questions about ELFING
- Is ELFING valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ELFING is not in it.
- How many points is ELFING worth?
- ELFING is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELFING mean?
- To tangle or mat hair into knots, as in the -ing form of the old verb elf.
- What letters can be added to ELFING?
- ELFING takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ELFING:
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