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Yes. The word scarf is a Scrabble US word. The word scarf is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is scarf a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scarf is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

SCARF,

4-letter words (7 found)

ARCS,ARFS,CAFS,CARS,FARS,FRAS,SCAR,

3-letter words (11 found)

ARC,ARF,ARS,CAF,CAR,FAR,FAS,FRA,RAS,SAC,SAR,

2-letter words (3 found)

AR,AS,FA,

You can make 22 words from scarf according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of scarf

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Definitions and meaning of scarf

scarf

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /skɑːf/
  • (US) IPA(key): /skɑːɹf/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

Noun

scarf (plural scarves or scarfs)

  1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
  2. A headscarf.
  3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Welsh: sgarff
Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

  1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
  2. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
Alternative forms
  • scarve

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

  1. A type of joint in woodworking.
  2. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
  3. A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
Synonyms
  • muffler
Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

  1. To shape by grinding.
  2. To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
  3. To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

Etymology 3

Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

  1. (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
    Synonyms: (UK) scoff, guzzle
Derived terms
  • scarf and barf
  • scarf down
Translations

Etymology 4

From Old Norse skarfr.

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

  1. (Scotland) A cormorant.
Alternative forms
  • scart, skart

Etymology 5

Noun

scarf (countable and uncountable, plural scarfs)

  1. Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”).

References

  • “scarf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • carfs, fracs

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • scarph

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skarp, see also Old Saxon skarp, Old English scearp, Old Norse skarpr.

Adjective

scarf

  1. sharp

Descendants

  • Middle High German: scharpf
    • Alemannic German: scharpf
    • Bavarian: scharf
    • Central Franconian: schärp, scharp; scharf
    • German: scharf
    • Hunsrik: schaaref
    • Luxembourgish: schaarf
    • Yiddish: שאַרף (sharf)

Source: wiktionary.org