TAFIA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TAFIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TAFIA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TAFIA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAFIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tafiasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TAFIA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAFIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does TAFIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicCaribbean
A crude, potent rum distilled from low-grade molasses or the waste left over from sugar refining, associated especially with the French Caribbean and parts of South America.
Tafia differs from ordinary rum mainly in its raw material, since distillers made it from scraps and leftovers of sugar production rather than pure cane juice, giving tafia a rougher taste than rum sold for export. Plantation workers and sailors in the colonial Caribbean often received tafia as a cheap ration rather than wages, and old shipping ledgers still record barrels of tafia alongside molasses and raw sugar. The English word came from French tafia, itself likely drawn from a Caribbean or West African source, though its exact origin is not settled. Today tafia appears mainly in historical writing about colonial-era sugar plantations and distilling rather than on any modern drink menu.
How TAFIA is used
Historical and regional; encountered mainly in writing about colonial Caribbean sugar production and rum distilling rather than modern drink menus.
- Plantation workers were sometimes paid partly in tafia instead of wages.
- The old ledger recorded barrels of tafia shipped from the sugar mill.
- Tafia had a rougher taste than the refined rum sold to Europe.
- Sailors on the crossing were given a ration of tafia each evening.
- Historians describe tafia as the poor relation of proper Caribbean rum.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAFIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TAFIA
1 longer words begin with TAFIA.
Words ending in TAFIA
1 words end in TAFIA. Useful as a back hook: play TAFIA onto a word already on the board.
Words with TAFIA inside
1 words contain TAFIA in the middle. Words that start with TAFIA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TAFIA
Common questions about TAFIA
- Is TAFIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TAFIA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TAFIA worth?
- TAFIA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAFIA mean?
- A crude, potent rum distilled from low-grade molasses or the waste left over from sugar refining, associated especially with the French Caribbean and parts of South America.
- What letters can be added to TAFIA?
- TAFIA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAFIA:
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