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Is raft a Scrabble word?

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

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Is raft a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1A1F4T1

Is raft a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word raft is a Words With Friends word. The word raft is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

FART,FRAT,RAFT,

3-letter words (8 found)

AFT,ARF,ART,FAR,FAT,FRA,RAT,TAR,

2-letter words (4 found)

AR,AT,FA,TA,

You can make 15 words from raft according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of raft

raft arft rfat frat afrt fart ratf artf rtaf traf atrf tarf rfta frta rtfa trfa ftra tfra aftr fatr atfr tafr ftar tfar

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

Definitions and meaning of raft

raft

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɑːft/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɹæft/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːft

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).

Noun

raft (plural rafts)

  1. A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
  2. (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
  3. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
  4. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
  5. (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
  6. A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
  7. (cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
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Verb

raft (third-person singular simple present rafts, present participle rafting, simple past and past participle rafted)

  1. (transitive) To convey on a raft.
  2. (transitive) To make into a raft.
  3. (intransitive) To travel by raft.
  4. (graphical user interface) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
Translations

Related terms

  • rafter
  • whitewater rafting

References

Etymology 2

Alteration of raff.

Noun

raft (plural rafts)

  1. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them.
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Etymology 3

Verb

raft

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of reave

Anagrams

  • FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, fart, frat, traf

Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish راف (raf), from Arabic رَفّ (raff), contaminated with rrafsh.

Noun

raft m

  1. shelf
  2. horse's phalera (Old Albanian, attested in Frang Bardhi)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “raft”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 387

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English raft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈraft]

Noun

raft m inan

  1. raft (inflatable floating craft)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish راف (raf), from Arabic رَفّ (raff).

Noun

raft n (plural rafturi)

  1. shelf

Declension


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