WAIFT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WAIFT 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 WAIFT?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAIFT is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAIFT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
waiftsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAIFT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WAIFT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does WAIFT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaiclegal
Stolen property thrown away by a fleeing thief and found by someone else.
Waift is a narrower legal cousin of waif, naming specifically the goods a thief abandons while running from pursuit, which the finder or the crown could then claim. The Elizabethan poet Spenser also used it more loosely for a phantom or wandering thing, but the property sense is the older, sharper one.
How WAIFT is used
Archaic legal term; met in old law reports and older literary usage.
- The court ruled the dropped goods a waift belonging to no one present.
- Old law treated a waift differently from property simply lost.
- The thief left a waift behind when the chase began.
- A waift found on the road could be claimed under the old rule.
- Spenser used waift for something closer to a phantom than to stolen goods.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAIFT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAIFT
1 longer words begin with WAIFT.
Shorter words from the letters in WAIFT
Common questions about WAIFT
- Is WAIFT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WAIFT is not in it.
- How many points is WAIFT worth?
- WAIFT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAIFT mean?
- Stolen property thrown away by a fleeing thief and found by someone else.
- What letters can be added to WAIFT?
- WAIFT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WAIFT:
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