Scrabble & Words with friends points
- foil is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- foil is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- foil is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8
Definition of foil
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through (noun)
Examples
- the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils
Synonyms
- hydrofoil
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities (noun)
Examples
- pretty girls like plain friends as foils
Synonyms
- enhancer
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of (verb)
Examples
- foil your opponent
Synonyms
- baffle
- bilk
- cross
- frustrate
- queer
- scotch
- spoil
- thwart
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector (noun)
Synonyms
- transparency
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button (noun)
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal (noun)
Examples
- the photographic film was wrapped in foil
- cover or back with foil (verb)
Examples
- foil mirrors
- enhance by contrast (verb)
Examples
- In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background
See definition of foil in Merriam Webster