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Is leaf a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word leaf is a Scrabble US word. The word leaf is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is leaf a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word leaf is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

L1E1A1F4

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Yes. The word leaf is a Words With Friends word. The word leaf is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

ALEF,FEAL,FLEA,LEAF,

3-letter words (5 found)

ALE,ALF,ELF,FAE,LEA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AL,EA,EF,EL,FA,FE,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from leaf according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of leaf

leaf elaf laef alef ealf aelf lefa elfa lfea flea efla fela lafe alfe lfae flae afle fale eafl aefl efal feal afel fael

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word leaf. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in leaf.

Definitions and meaning of leaf

leaf

Etymology

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)

See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).

(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lēf, IPA(key): /liːf/
  • Rhymes: -iːf
  • Homophones: Leith (with th-fronting), lief

Noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

  1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  4. (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
    Hyponyms: flyleaf, looseleaf
  5. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
    Synonyms: folio, folium
  6. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
  7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  9. (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
    Hyponym: doorleaf
    Meronym: stile
  10. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  11. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
  12. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
  13. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  14. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
  15. (4chan, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.

Synonyms

  • phyllon

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: lip

Translations

Verb

leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)

  1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
  2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
    The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

Synonyms

  • leave (verb)

Derived terms

  • leafing
  • leaf through

Translations

See also

  • foliage
  • frond
  • needle

References

Further reading

  • leaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • leaf (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “leaf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “leaf”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Lafe, alef, feal, flea

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /læ͜ɑːf/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *laubą. Cognate with Old Saxon lōf, Old High German loub, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

Noun

lēaf n

  1. leaf
  2. page
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle English: leef, lefe, leve, lewe
    • English: leaf
      • Tok Pisin: lip
    • Scots: leaf, lefe, leif
    • Yola: laafe

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *laubu. Cognate with Old High German *louba (German Laube).

Noun

lēaf f

  1. permission
Declension
Descendants
  • English: leave

Scots

Etymology

From Old English lēaf.

Noun

leaf (plural leafs)

  1. leaf

West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪə̯f/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian lāf.

Noun

leaf n (plural leaven, diminutive leafke)

  1. leaf, especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass
Further reading
  • “leaf (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian liāf.

Adjective

leaf

  1. friendly, kind, cordial
Inflection
Derived terms
  • leafde
  • leafhawwe
  • leavehearsbistke
Further reading
  • “leaf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org