What FORMER Means
- adjective: referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)“the novel was made into a film in 1943 and again in 1967; I prefer the former version to the latter one”
- adjective: belonging to some prior time“erstwhile friend”
- noun: the first of two or the first mentioned of two“Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FORMER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 R1 M3 E1 R1.
Anagrams of FORMER (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In FORMER
43 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.
5 letter words (3)
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (19)
2 letter words (11)
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