PLUFF is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. PLUFF 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 PLUFF?
| 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 PLUFF is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 2.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLUFF
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLUFF scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PLUFF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| f | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,353 thousand.
What does PLUFF mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectScots
To throw out dust, smoke or powder in a sudden soft puff.
Pluff turns up in glossaries of Scots and northern English dialect, kept apart there from plain spelling variants of standard words. Older writers reached for pluff when describing a stray gust from a chimney, a burst from damp gunpowder, or a hairdresser dabbing scented powder onto a wig, each time picturing something light escaping all at once. A related noun sense lets a pluff be the little cloud itself rather than the action that produced it. Today the word survives chiefly in dialect dictionaries and older regional writing, rarely in ordinary conversation.
How PLUFF is used
Mainly Scots and northern English dialect; rare outside descriptions of dust, smoke or old-fashioned powder puffs.
- The bellows made the dry ash pluff into the air.
- A sudden gust made the flour pluff out of the torn sack.
- The ripe puffball can pluff out a cloud of spores when touched.
- Soot pluffed down the chimney and settled on the hearth.
- She could pluff a little powder across her cheeks with one pat.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLUFF and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PLUFF
6 longer words begin with PLUFF.
Shorter words from the letters in PLUFF
Common questions about PLUFF
- Is PLUFF valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PLUFF is not in it.
- How many points is PLUFF worth?
- PLUFF is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLUFF mean?
- To throw out dust, smoke or powder in a sudden soft puff.
- What letters can be added to PLUFF?
- PLUFF takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PLUFF:
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