Yes, father is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Make children

Noun

1. A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

2. The founder of a family

3. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

4. (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

5. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

6. God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

7. A person who founds or establishes some institution

8. The head of an organized crime family