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Is wharf a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wharf is a Scrabble US word. The word wharf is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is wharf a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wharf is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

WHARF,

3-letter words (10 found)

ARF,FAH,FAR,FAW,FRA,HAW,RAH,RAW,WAR,WHA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,AR,AW,FA,HA,

You can make 16 words from wharf according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of wharf

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Definitions and meaning of wharf

wharf

Etymology

From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔːf/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /wɔɹf/
  • (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /ʍ-/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f

Noun

wharf (plural wharves or wharfs)

  1. A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
  2. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.

Synonyms

  • (landing place): dock; quay

Hyponyms

  • (landing place): jetty; pier; staithe, staith (Northern England)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wharf (third-person singular simple present wharfs, present participle wharfing, simple past and past participle wharfed)

  1. (transitive) To secure by a wharf.
  2. (transitive) To place on a wharf.

See also

  • dock

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • wherf, wharfe, warrf, wharghfe

Etymology

From Old English hwearf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hwarf/

Noun

wharf (plural wharves)

  1. wharf

Derived terms

  • wharfage

Descendants

  • English: wharf
  • Scots: wharf

References

  • “wharf, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-12.

Source: wiktionary.org