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Is surf a Scrabble word?

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

S1U1R1F4

Is surf a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1U1R1F4

Is surf a Words With Friends word?

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

FURS,SURF,

3-letter words (2 found)

FUR,SUR,

2-letter words (3 found)

FU,UR,US,

You can make 7 words from surf according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of surf

surf

English

Etymology

1680s, perhaps from earlier suffe (c. 1590), possibly related to sough, or possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India. The verb is from 1917. The verb referring to "browsing the Internet" was popularized by Jean Armour Polly.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɜːf/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /sɝf/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
  • Homophone: serf (fern–fir–fur merger)

Noun

surf (countable and uncountable, plural surfs)

  1. Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
  2. An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.
  3. A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked.
  4. (UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

surf (third-person singular simple present surfs, present participle surfing, simple past and past participle surfed)

  1. To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
  2. To surf at a specified place.
  3. To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.
  4. (ambitransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Furs, furs

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʏrf/

Verb

surf

  1. inflection of surfen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

French

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

  1. surfing

Derived terms

  • surf des neiges

Related terms

  • surfer
  • surfeur
  • surfeuse

Further reading

  • “surf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛrf/, /ˈsørf/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrf

Noun

surf m (invariable)

  1. (sports) surfing

Derived terms

  • surfista
  • surfare
  • tavola da surf
  • windsurf

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • surfe (Brazil)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surf.

Pronunciation

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

  1. (sports) surfing

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surf.

Noun

surf n (uncountable)

  1. surf

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English surf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsuɾf/ [ˈsuɾf]
    • Rhymes: -uɾf
    • Syllabification: surf
  • IPA(key): /ˈsoɾf/ [ˈsoɾf]
    • Rhymes: -oɾf

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

  1. surfing

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “surf”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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