SHAFT is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SHAFT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHAFT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHAFT is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHAFT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
shaftsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHAFT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHAFT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does SHAFT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A long, narrow bar, pole or handle, or a similarly long and narrow passage or structure such as a mine shaft, lift shaft or shaft of light.
Shaft covers several related ideas that all share the sense of something long, narrow and often vertical. It can be the wooden handle of a tool such as an axe or spear, the rotating rod that transmits power inside a machine, or the enclosed vertical space through which a lift or a mine cage travels. The word is also used poetically for a beam of light, as when sunlight breaks through cloud in a shaft. In informal speech, to give someone the shaft means to treat them unfairly, a sense quite separate from the physical objects the word normally names.
How SHAFT is used
A common and versatile word found in technical, mechanical and everyday contexts, as well as in the informal phrase give someone the shaft.
- A single shaft of sunlight fell across the kitchen table.
- Engineers inspected the shaft connecting the engine to the propeller.
- The miners were lowered down the shaft in a metal cage.
- The axe shaft had cracked near the handle.
- He felt he had been given the shaft when his bonus was cancelled.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHAFT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHAFT
The 5 tiles of SHAFT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHAFT
7 longer words begin with SHAFT.
Words ending in SHAFT
12 words end in SHAFT. Useful as a back hook: play SHAFT onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHAFT inside
12 words contain SHAFT in the middle. Words that start with SHAFT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHAFT
Common questions about SHAFT
- Is SHAFT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHAFT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHAFT worth?
- SHAFT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHAFT mean?
- A long, narrow bar, pole or handle, or a similarly long and narrow passage or structure such as a mine shaft, lift shaft or shaft of light.
- What letters can be added to SHAFT?
- SHAFT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHAFT:
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