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Is afloat a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word afloat is a Scrabble US word. The word afloat is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is afloat a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word afloat is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

AFLOAT,

5-letter words (4 found)

ALOFT,FATAL,FLOAT,FLOTA,

4-letter words (10 found)

ALFA,ALTO,FLAT,FOAL,LOAF,LOFT,LOTA,TAAL,TALA,TOLA,

3-letter words (13 found)

AAL,AFT,ALA,ALF,ALT,FAA,FAT,LAT,LOT,OAF,OAT,OFT,TAO,

2-letter words (9 found)

AA,AL,AT,FA,LA,LO,OF,TA,TO,

You can make 37 words from afloat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of afloat

afloat

Etymology

a- +‎ float

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈfloʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Adverb

afloat (not comparable)

  1. Floating.
  2. In a vessel at sea or on another body of water.
    Antonym: ashore
  3. Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc. (of hair or clothing)
  4. Covered with water (bearing floating objects).
    Synonyms: awash, flooded
    • 1695, Edmund Gibson (translator), Camden’s Britannia, London: A. Swalle, “Staffordshire,”[6]
      […] it [the River Dove] overflows and lays the meadows afloat in April, like another Nile
  5. (figurative) Covered, overspread (with or in something).
    Synonym: awash
  6. Having enough money to continue to operate; (of a private individual, family, etc.) able to pay one's expenses, able to keep one's head above water. (of an organization)
    Synonyms: on one's feet, solvent
    Antonyms: bankrupt, insolvent
  7. (dated, of ideas, information, etc.) Being believed or discussed by many people; being passed from person to person.
    Synonyms: circulating, in circulation, current
  8. (obsolete, of an emotional state) Stimulated, aroused.
  9. (obsolete) In a state of confusion or bewilderment.
    Synonym: at sea
    • 1789, Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield dated August 1789, in Miscellaneous Works, London: A. Strahan et al., 1796, p. 201,[21]
      I know not what to say; my mind is all afloat; yet you will not reproach me with caprice or inconstancy.

Translations

Preposition

afloat

  1. (obsolete) Floating on.
    • early 1600s, John Webster and William Rowley, The Thracian Wonder, London: Thomas Johnson, 1661, Act I, Scene 1,[24]
      But Huswife, as for you, / You with your Brat, wee’l send afloat the Main,

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