Is FAILS a word?
FAILS is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 21 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, FAILS is a valid word.
What does fails mean?
FAILS is an inflected form of fail.
verb: fail to do something; leave something undone.
“She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
FAILS: word details
- Pronunciation: FAYLZ (approx., 1 syllable)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 8 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 9 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so FAILS works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of fails
Shorter words inside fails
Words you can make from the letters of fails.
Solve a whole rack, not just FAILS
FAILS is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does FAILS mean?
FAILS is an inflected form of fail and is a verb. It means: fail to do something; leave something undone.
Is FAILS a valid word?
Yes, FAILS is a valid word. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.