Definitions for wraiths

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Spelling: [reyth]
IPA: /reɪθ/

Wraiths is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in wraiths (ahirstw).

Definitions for wraiths

noun

  1. an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
  2. a visible spirit.

Origin of wraiths

1505-15; originally Scots; origin uncertain

Examples for wraiths

Sometimes he smiled at her; sometimes at the wraith in the rafters.

How could this wraith, this apparition, do us physical injury!

In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow.

Across the stair she wavered, a wraith blown across the gulf of time.

A wraith of Tako was there, stricken as though numbed by surprise….

I think it was the image of my robust self as a wraith that did it.

Was she a woman or a wraith, this slender thing swaying in the candle-light?

Eulálio ends up being an idol, a wraith who, at 150, is not quite dead and not quite living.

This apparition of a friend has in the Scotch wraith, or Irish fetch its counterpart.

They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.

Word Value for wraiths
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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