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

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4-letter words (1 found)

FOUL,

3-letter words (4 found)

FLU,FOU,LOU,UFO,

2-letter words (4 found)

FU,LO,OF,OU,

You can make 9 words from foul according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of foul

foul oful fuol ufol oufl uofl folu oflu flou lfou olfu lofu fulo uflo fluo lfuo ulfo lufo oulf uolf oluf louf ulof luof

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Definitions and meaning of foul

foul

Pronunciation

  • enPR: foul, IPA(key): /faʊl/
  • Rhymes: -aʊl
  • Homophone: fowl
  • Rhymes: -aʊəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English foul, from Old English fūl (“foul, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, guilty”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūl, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot”).

Cognate with Dutch vuil (“foul”), German faul (“rotten, putrid”), Danish and Swedish ful (“foul”), and through Indo-European, with Albanian fëlliq (“to make dirty”), Latin puter (“rotten”). More at putrid.

Ancient Greek φαῦλος (phaûlos, “bad”) is a false cognate inasmuch as it is not from the same etymon, instead being cognate to few.

Adjective

foul (comparative fouler, superlative foulest)

  1. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
  2. (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
  3. Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
  4. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
  5. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
  6. Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
  7. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
  8. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
  9. (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
    • 2015, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Railway Investigation Report R13T0192[1]:
      The bus had stopped just foul of the north track at the Erindale Station Road public railway crossing […] With the bus stationary, but still foul of the north track, the train struck one of its front mirrors.
  10. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Synonyms
  • (hateful, detestable): shameful; odious; wretched
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Etymology 2

From Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (“to rot; decay”).

Verb

foul (third-person singular simple present fouls, present participle fouling, simple past and past participle fouled)

  1. (transitive) To make dirty.
    Synonyms: befoul, dirty, besmirch
  2. (transitive) To besmirch.
  3. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
  4. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
  5. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
  6. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
  7. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
  8. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
  9. (intransitive) To become clogged.
  10. (intransitive) To become entangled.
  11. To come into contact or collide with.
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Noun

foul (plural fouls)

  1. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
  2. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
  3. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Cantonese: foul
  • → Polish: faul
  • → Russian: фол (fol)
  • → Turkish: faul
Translations

See also

  • foul fish

Further reading

  • “foul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “foul”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “foul”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • fluo-

Chinese

Alternative forms

  • 否

Etymology

From English foul.

Pronunciation

Verb

foul

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, usually sports) to disqualify due to a foul (breach of rules of the game) or a violation
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, by extension) to eliminate
  3. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to reject (an idea or a proposal)

Synonyms

  • (to disqualify): DQ
  • (to reject): ban

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

German

Pronunciation

Verb

foul

  1. singular imperative of foulen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of foulen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French fol.

Noun

foul

  1. Alternative form of fole (“fool”)

Etymology 2

From Old English fugol.

Noun

foul

  1. Alternative form of fowel

Source: wiktionary.org