fool: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with F · ends with L
Meaning of fool
noun
- derogatory
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
Example: You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- informal
Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
Listed forms: fools.
Source: Wiktionary — fool.
verb
- transitive
To trick; to deceive.
- intransitive
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
- archaic
To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
Listed forms: fools, fooling, fooled.
Source: Wiktionary — fool.
adj
- informal
Foolish.
Listed forms: fooler, foolest.
Source: Wiktionary — fool.
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 fool.
noun
a person who lacks good judgment
noun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
noun
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- jester
- motley fool
verb
make a fool or dupe 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 fool in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fool
F(4) + O(1) + O(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 fool
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from fool
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