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FIRST

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What FIRST Means

  1. noun: the first or highest in an ordering or series“He wanted to be the first”
  2. noun: the first element in a countable series“the first of the month”
  3. adjective: preceding all others in time or space or degree“the first house on the right”
  4. adjective: highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections“first soprano”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FIRST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 I1 R1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of FIRST (3)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In FIRST

27 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 (10)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing FIRST

FIRST appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.