fill: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with F · ends with L
Meaning of fill
verb
- ergative, transitive
To make full To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
Example: She filled a glass with milk.
- ergative, transitive
To make full To enter (something), making it full.
Example: The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.
- ergative, transitive
To make full To occupy fully, to take up all of.
Example: The smell of spring filled the air.
- intransitive
To become full.
Example: The bucket filled with rain
Listed forms: fills, filling, filled.
Source: Wiktionary — fill.
noun
- countable, uncountable
A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
Example: Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
- countable, uncountable
An amount that fills a container.
Example: The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
- countable, uncountable
The filling of a container or area.
Example: That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
- countable, uncountable
Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
Example: The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
Listed forms: fills.
Source: Wiktionary — fill.
noun
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
Listed forms: fills.
Source: Wiktionary — fill.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for fill.
noun
any material that fills a space or container
verb
make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill up
- make full
verb
become full
- fill up
verb
occupy the whole of
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fill in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fill
F(4) + I(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 7 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of fill
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from fill
4 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in fill. Showing up to 24, longest first.