What REEF Means
- verb: lower and bring partially inboard“reef the sailboat's mast”
- verb: roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
- noun: a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- noun: one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
REEF is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 E1 F4.
Anagrams of REEF (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In REEF
11 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing REEF
REEF appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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