What FAULT Means
- noun: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention“he made a bad mistake”
- noun: an imperfection in an object or machine“a flaw caused the crystal to shatter”
- verb: put or pin the blame on
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FAULT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 A1 U1 L1 T1.
Words Made From The Letters In FAULT
21 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.
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing FAULT
FAULT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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