FIR is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. FIR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FIR?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIR is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FIR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in FIR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does FIR mean in Scrabble?
noun
An evergreen tree with needles and upright cones.
A fir cone stands up and a spruce cone hangs down, and that is the quickest way to tell the two apart in a wood. What is sold as a Christmas tree is usually a spruce, which is why the needles fall — a real fir holds them a great deal better.
How FIR is used
Countable: a fir, two firs.
- The fir holds its needles and the spruce does not.
- A fir cone points upward on the branch.
- They planted fir along the whole ridge in 1955.
- The tree sold as a fir is usually something else.
- Two firs at the gate and neither of them straight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FIR
The 3 tiles of FIR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FIR
Showing 24 of 214 words that begin with FIR.
Words ending in FIR
4 words end in FIR. Useful as a back hook: play FIR onto a word already on the board.
Words with FIR inside
Showing 24 of 186 words that contain FIR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FIR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FIR
Common questions about FIR
- Is FIR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIR, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIR worth?
- FIR is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIR mean?
- An evergreen tree with needles and upright cones.
- What letters can be added to FIR?
- FIR takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of FIR:
Open FIR in the Word Finder