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Is tuft a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tuft a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

TUFT,

3-letter words (1 found)

TUT,

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FU,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of tuft

tuft

English

Etymology

From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʌft/
  • Rhymes: -ʌft

Noun

tuft (plural tufts)

  1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
  2. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
  3. A small clump of trees or bushes.
  4. (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
  5. (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

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Verb

tuft (third-person singular simple present tufts, present participle tufting, simple past and past participle tufted)

  1. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
  2. (transitive) To form into tufts.
  3. (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
  4. (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.

Translations

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • tupt, túpt, toft, tøpt, tøft, typt, tyft (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse tupt, topt, from Proto-Germanic *tumþiz and/or *tumftō. Doublet of tomt. Compare Faroese toft and Icelandic tóft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʊft/

Noun

tuft f (definite singular tufta, indefinite plural tufter, definite plural tuftene)

  1. homestead, ground where a house stands
  2. an earth floor
  3. a plot (of land), site, (building) lot

Synonyms

  • tomt

Derived terms

Related terms

  • tyfta

References

  • “tuft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “tuft” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Source: wiktionary.org