What WAIF Means
- noun: a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned“street children beg or steal in order to survive”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WAIF is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 A1 I1 F4.
Words Made From The Letters In WAIF
6 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 (2)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing WAIF
WAIF appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.