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

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5-letter words (4 found)

FIRST,FRIST,FRITS,RIFTS,

4-letter words (10 found)

FIRS,FIST,FITS,FRIS,FRIT,RIFS,RIFT,RITS,SIFT,STIR,

3-letter words (11 found)

FIR,FIT,IFS,ITS,RIF,RIT,SIF,SIR,SIT,SRI,TIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

IF,IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 31 words from frist according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of frist

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Definitions and meaning of frist

frist

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɹɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From Middle English *frist, frest, first, furst, from Old English fierst (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from Proto-Germanic *fristiz, *frestą (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also first.

Noun

frist (countable and uncountable, plural frists)

  1. (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
  2. (UK dialectal) Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid); a delay; respite; suspension.
  3. (UK dialectal) Credit; trust.
    • 1492–1503, Andrew Halyburton, Andrew Halyburton's ledger:
      Sald tham to fryst to a man of the Hag, […]
      Sold them to frist to a man of The Hague, […]
    • a1568, Sir David Lindsay, Ane Discriptioun of Peder Coffeis:
      Ane dyvour coffe, that wirry hen, / Distroyis the honor of our natioun, / Takis gudis to frist fra fremmit men, / And brekis his obligatioun.
      One bankrupt rouge , that wirry hen, / destroys the honor of our nation / takes goods to frist from fremd men, / and breaks his obligation.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *fristen, frysten, fresten, firsten, from Old English *fyrstan (“to defer, delay, put off”), from fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Low German versten, German fristen (“to eke out”), Danish friste (“to sustain, support, experience, tempt”), Icelandic fresta (“to delay”).

Verb

frist (third-person singular simple present frists, present participle fristing, simple past and past participle fristed)

  1. (UK dialectal) To grant respite; especially, to give a debtor credit or time for payment.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To defer; postpone.
Derived terms
  • fristing

Anagrams

  • FTIRs, First, SIRTF, first, frits, rifts

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfresd/, [ˈfʁɛsd̥]

Etymology 1

From Old Danish frest, Old Norse frest n, from Proto-Germanic *frestą, related to *fristiz in German Frist f. The modern Danish form is probably influenced by German.

Noun

frist c (singular definite fristen, plural indefinite frister)

  1. deadline
Declension
Synonyms
  • deadline

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

frist

  1. imperative of friste

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɪst/

Adjective

frist

  1. superlative degree of fris

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frest n, Proto-Germanic *frestą (“date; appointed time”), from *fres (“forward”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres- (“to press”), from *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”).

Noun

frist m (definite singular fristen, indefinite plural frister, definite plural fristene)

  1. deadline

References

  • “frist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse frest, from Proto-Germanic *frestą.

Noun

frist c

  1. a period (extended from its original length) within which something must be done, (roughly) a deadline

Usage notes

Likely not clearly separated from tidsfrist by many native speakers.

Declension

Derived terms

  • tidsfrist

See also

  • deadline
  • uppskov

References

  • frist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • frist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • frist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org