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DRIFT
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
D
2
R
1
I
1
F
4
T
1
Σ
9
Definitions
Verb
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
- be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards"
- cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
- be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
- move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
- wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
- vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher"
Noun
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- the pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation"
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word DRIFT
Yes, DRIFT is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 9 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
DRIFT is a 5-letter word. It contains 1 vowels and 4 consonants.