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Is raffle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word raffle is a Scrabble US word. The word raffle is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is raffle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word raffle is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word raffle is a Words With Friends word. The word raffle is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

FARFEL,RAFFLE,

5-letter words (3 found)

FARLE,FERAL,FLARE,

4-letter words (16 found)

ALEF,ARLE,EARL,FARE,FARL,FEAL,FEAR,FLEA,FRAE,LAER,LARE,LEAF,LEAR,RAFF,RALE,REAL,

3-letter words (17 found)

AFF,ALE,ALF,ARE,ARF,EAR,EFF,ELF,ERA,ERF,FAE,FAR,FER,FRA,LAR,LEA,REF,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AL,AR,EA,EF,EL,ER,FA,FE,LA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 50 words from raffle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of raffle

raffle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæfl̩/
  • Rhymes: -æfəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffolōn, from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game”), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off”), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).

Noun

raffle (plural raffles)

  1. A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
  2. (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
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Verb

raffle (third-person singular simple present raffles, present participle raffling, simple past and past participle raffled)

  1. (transitive, often with off) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing.
    They raffled off four gift baskets.
  2. (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
    to raffle for a watch
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Etymology 2

See raff.

Noun

raffle (uncountable)

  1. refuse; rubbish

Anagrams

  • farfel, laffer

Source: wiktionary.org