TRIFF is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. TRIFF 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 TRIFF?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRIFF is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRIFF
No single letter turns TRIFF into another word.
How TRIFF scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TRIFF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 232,369.
What stands out about TRIFF
- The letters of TRIFF run in reverse alphabetical order.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TRIFF mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalBritish
Excellent or wonderful, a clipped form of terrific.
Triff is playground slang from British schoolyards, shortened the way terrific was clipped to a punchy one-syllable word. It peaked in the nineteen sixties and now sounds dated when a speaker uses it seriously.
How TRIFF is used
Casual spoken slang, mostly remembered as dated rather than used fresh.
- That new bike is triff, he said.
- A triff idea nobody had tried before.
- She called the party absolutely triff.
- Old comics are full of characters calling things triff.
- Triff sounded fresh in the sixties and dated now.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRIFF and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TRIFF
9 longer words begin with TRIFF.
Shorter words from the letters in TRIFF
Common questions about TRIFF
- Is TRIFF valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TRIFF is not in it.
- How many points is TRIFF worth?
- TRIFF is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRIFF mean?
- Excellent or wonderful, a clipped form of terrific.
- What letters can be added to TRIFF?
- No single letter can be added to TRIFF to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TRIFF:
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