WAFT is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WAFT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAFT?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAFT is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAFT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
waftsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAFT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WAFT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does WAFT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To carry or move lightly through the air.
Waft came from a word for an armed convoy escorting ships, which is a long way from a smell drifting across a room. The narrowing happened in the seventeenth century.
How WAFT is used
Wafted, wafting. Also a noun.
- The smell wafted in from four gardens away.
- The word waft once named an armed convoy.
- A waft of something burning and then nothing.
- Smoke wafted across and nobody moved.
- The narrowing of waft happened in the 1600s.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAFT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAFT
10 longer words begin with WAFT.
Words ending in WAFT
1 words end in WAFT. Useful as a back hook: play WAFT onto a word already on the board.
Words with WAFT inside
3 words contain WAFT in the middle. Words that start with WAFT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAFT
Common questions about WAFT
- Is WAFT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAFT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAFT worth?
- WAFT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAFT mean?
- To carry or move lightly through the air.
- What letters can be added to WAFT?
- WAFT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WAFT:
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