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

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Yes. The word orf is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

O1R1F4

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3-letter words (3 found)

FOR,FRO,ORF,

2-letter words (2 found)

OF,OR,

You can make 5 words from orf according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of orf

orf rof ofr for rfo fro

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Definitions and meaning of orf

orf

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔːf/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːf

Etymology 1

From Middle English orf, from Old English orf (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *arbī.

Akin to Old English ierfe (“inheritance, livestock, cattle”). More at erf.

Noun

orf (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Cattle.
References
  • “orf”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

From the same source as Etymology 1, or from Old Norse hrufa (“scab”), from Proto-Germanic *hreubaz (whence also dandruff).

Noun

orf (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) An exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.
Translations

Etymology 3

See orfe.

Noun

orf (plural orfs)

  1. Alternative form of orfe (the fish)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation spelling.

Adverb

orf (not comparable)

  1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Adjective

orf

  1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Preposition

orf

  1. (pronunciation spelling) off

Anagrams

  • 'fro, FOR, for, for-, fro

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse orf, from Proto-Germanic *wurba-, related to *warpą. Cognate with Swedish orv, Old High German worf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔrv/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrv

Noun

orf n (genitive singular orfs, nominative plural orf)

  1. snath
  2. string trimmer

Declension

Synonyms

  • (string trimmer): sláttuorf n

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Middle English

Alternative forms

  • orve, oreve, orfe

Etymology

From Old English orf, from Proto-West Germanic *arbī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔrf/

Noun

orf (plural orffes)

  1. Stock, cattle; farm animals.
  2. A group of ovines in particular.

Descendants

  • English: orf

References

  • “orf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.

Source: wiktionary.org