Definitions for wraith

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Spelling: [reyth]
IPA: /reɪθ/

Wraith is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in wraith (ahirtw).

Definitions for wraith

noun

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

Origin of wraith

1505-15; originally Scots; origin uncertain

Examples for wraith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for wraith
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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