Foil
Foil is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 7 points
- Letters
- 4
- Syllables
- 1
- How common
- Less common
Meaning of foil
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nounA piece of thin and flexible sheet metal.
“the photographic film was wrapped in foil”
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nounAnything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities.
“pretty girls like plain friends as foils”
Similar: enhancer
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nounA device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through.
“the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils”
Similar: hydrofoil
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verbEnhance by contrast.
“In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background”
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verbHinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
“What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge”
Similar: thwart , queer , spoil , scotch , cross , frustrate , baffle , bilk
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verbCover or back with foil.
“foil mirrors”
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of foil
- filo7
Words inside foil
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- oil3
- fil6
Words that rhyme with foil
- oil
- soil
- boil
- coil
- spoil
- toil
- broil
- hoyle
- roil
- recoil
- embroil
- uncoil
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