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Yes. The word eft is a Scrabble US word. The word eft is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (3 found)

EFT,FET,TEF,

2-letter words (4 found)

EF,ET,FE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from eft according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of eft

eft fet etf tef fte tfe

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Definitions and meaning of eft

eft

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛft/
  • Rhymes: -ɛft

Etymology 1

From Middle English evete, from Old English efete, of unknown origin.

Noun

eft (plural efts)

  1. A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus), of Europe.
    • 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
      How did he like it when the live creatures
      Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
      And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
      Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
Usage notes

The term red eft is used for the land-dwelling juvenile stage of the Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English eft, from Old English eft, æft, from Proto-West Germanic *afti, from Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Compare after, aft.

Adverb

eft (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Again; afterwards
Derived terms
  • eftsoons
Translations

Anagrams

  • ETF, FET, FTE, TFE, fet, tef

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • efte

Etymology

From Old English eft, æft. Compare after.

Adverb

eft

  1. again
  2. back (to a previous place or state)
  3. afterwards, hereafter
  4. likewise, in addition, moreover

Alternative forms

  • ef
  • æft

Descendants

  • English: eft

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old Saxon eft, Old Norse ept.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eft/

Adverb

eft

  1. again
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"
  2. back (of return or reversal)
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52
  3. afterwards

Synonyms

  • ongean

Derived terms

  • eftgian

Descendants

  • Middle English: eft
    • English: eft

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old English eft, Old Norse ept.

Adverb

eft

  1. afterwards, again
    • w:Heliand, verse 4898:

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Etymology

From Middle English efte, from Old English efete.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛɸt/

Noun

eft

  1. newt

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38

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