What FOILS Means
FOILS is a form of FOIL, which means:
- noun: a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal“the photographic film was wrapped in foil”
- noun: anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities“pretty girls like plain friends as foils”
- verb: enhance by contrast“In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background”
- verb: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of“What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FOILS 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 O1 I1 L1 S1.
Anagrams of FOILS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In FOILS
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 (7)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (10)
Longer Words Containing FOILS
FOILS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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