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Yes. The word frill is a Scrabble US word. The word frill is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word frill is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FRILL,

4-letter words (3 found)

FILL,FLIR,RILL,

3-letter words (4 found)

FIL,FIR,ILL,RIF,

2-letter words (2 found)

IF,LI,

You can make 10 words from frill according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of frill

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Definitions and meaning of frill

frill

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /fɹɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin.

Noun

frill (plural frills)

  1. A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
    Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle
    • 1777, Samuel Jackson Pratt (as Courtney Melmoth), Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 5, Chapter 114, p. 163,[2]
      […] one of her husband Jeffery’s shirts (with frills to the bosom) […]
  2. (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
  3. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
  4. (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
  5. (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
    Synonym: neck frill
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  • jabot

Verb

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

  1. (transitive) To make into a frill.
  2. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
  3. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
    • 1863, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings, Chapter 4, in All the Year Round, Volume 10, Extra Christmas Number, 3 December, 1863, p. 35,[7]
      Mrs. Sandham, formerly Kate Barford, is working at a baby’s frock, and asking now and then the advice of her sister, who is frilling a little cap.
Derived terms
  • friller
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Etymology 2

From Old French friller.

Verb

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, falconry) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
    • 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, Chapter 13, “Of the Voices of Birds,” p. 310,[8]
      The Eagle Frilleth, or Scriketh
      The Hawk, as Falcon, Gawshawk, and all such Birds of Prey, cryeth, peepeth, or frilleth.

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