HAUFS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. HAUFS 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept HAUFS?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAUFS is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAUFS
No single letter turns HAUFS into another word.
How HAUFS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HAUFS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does HAUFS mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsinformal
Small measures of whisky, ordered one at a time in Scots pub usage.
In Scots speech a hauf is a half-gill measure of spirits rather than simply the fraction half, and haufs is what a round of such drinks is called when several people order together. The word keeps its own narrower sense even though it looks like an ordinary plural, which is why bartenders in Scotland understand haufs as an order rather than a quantity of anything else.
How HAUFS is used
Scots informal usage, common in pubs when ordering measures of whisky.
- He bought a round of haufs for the whole table.
- Two haufs and a pint, please, she told the barman.
- The old men nursed their haufs by the fire.
- Ordering haufs was cheaper than buying full drams.
- The bar kept a tally of haufs sold on a busy night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAUFS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HAUFS
Common questions about HAUFS
- Is HAUFS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HAUFS is not in it.
- How many points is HAUFS worth?
- HAUFS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAUFS mean?
- Small measures of whisky, ordered one at a time in Scots pub usage.
- What letters can be added to HAUFS?
- No single letter can be added to HAUFS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HAUFS:
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