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Is foin a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word foin is a Scrabble US word. The word foin is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word foin is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (3 found)

FINO,FOIN,INFO,

3-letter words (3 found)

FIN,FON,ION,

2-letter words (7 found)

IF,IN,IO,NO,OF,OI,ON,

You can make 13 words from foin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of foin

foin ofin fion ifon oifn iofn foni ofni fnoi nfoi onfi nofi fino ifno fnio nfio info nifo oinf ionf onif noif inof niof

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Definitions and meaning of foin

foin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪn

Etymology 1

From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”).

Noun

foin (plural foins)

  1. (archaic) A thrust.
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XII, lv:
      They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain, / Nor blow nor foin they struck or thrust in vain.

Verb

foin (third-person singular simple present foins, present participle foining, simple past and past participle foined)

  1. (archaic) To thrust with a sword; to stab at.
  2. (archaic) To prick; to sting.

Etymology 2

From French fouine (“a marten”).

Noun

foin (plural foins)

  1. The beech marten (Martes foina, syn. Mustela foina).
  2. A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.

Anagrams

  • Fino, Info., ONFI, fino, info, info-

Bavarian

Alternative forms

  • fålln (Southern Bavarian)

Etymology

From Middle High German vallen, from Old High German fallan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallan, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-. Akin to German fallen, Low German fallen, Dutch vallen, English fall, Danish falde, Dutch falla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔen/
  • Hyphenation: foin

Verb

foin (past participle gfoin) (Central Bavarian)

  1. (intransitive) to fall; to drop
  2. (intransitive, military) to die; to fall in battle; to die in battle; to be killed in action
  3. (intransitive) to become lower, to decrease, to decline

Conjugation

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French foin, from Old French fein, from Latin fēnum, monophthongized variant of Latin faenum (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-no-, from *dʰeh₁(y)-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fwɛ̃/
  • Rhymes: -wɛ̃

Noun

foin m (plural foins)

  1. hay

Derived terms

  • bête à manger du foin
  • chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin
  • faire tout un foin de
  • meule de foin
  • rhume des foins

Related terms

  • faner
  • fenaison
  • fenasse
  • fenil

Further reading

  • “foin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • fion, info

Old French

Alternative forms

  • fain
  • fein

Etymology

From earlier fein, from Latin faenum.

Noun

foin oblique singular, m (oblique plural foinz, nominative singular foinz, nominative plural foin)

  1. hay

Related terms

  • fener

Descendants

  • French: foin
  • Norman: fain

Source: wiktionary.org