RIF is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RIF is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RIF?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RIF is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RIF
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RIF scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RIF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does RIF mean in Scrabble?
verb
informal
To dismiss an employee as part of a planned reduction in staff.
Rif is an acronym that turned into a verb. RIF — reduction in force — is the American administrative term for cutting posts, and the shortened verb followed it out of government offices into ordinary speech. Because it behaves as a normal verb it inflects normally too: riffed, riffing.
How RIF is used
Usually passive: he was riffed in the spring. The doubled f appears in the inflected forms.
- They riffed a third of the department and called it restructuring.
- Nobody says fired any more, they say you got riffed.
- The memo did not use the word rif once, which told everyone enough.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RIF and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RIF
The 3 tiles of RIF in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with RIF
Showing 24 of 56 words that begin with RIF.
Words ending in RIF
7 words end in RIF. Useful as a back hook: play RIF onto a word already on the board.
Words with RIF inside
Showing 24 of 636 words that contain RIF somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RIF are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RIF
Common questions about RIF
- Is RIF valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RIF, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RIF worth?
- RIF is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RIF mean?
- To dismiss an employee as part of a planned reduction in staff.
- What letters can be added to RIF?
- RIF takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RIF:
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