football: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 13 letter points · starts with F · ends with L
Meaning of football
noun
- countable, general, uncountable
A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
Example: Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.
- countable
The ball used in any game called "football".
Example: The player kicked the football.
- Africa, Caribbean, New-Zealand, South-Asia, UK, uncountable
Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
Example: Each team scored three goals when they played football.
- US, uncountable
American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Example: Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
Listed forms: footballs.
Source: Wiktionary — football.
verb
- intransitive, rare
To play football.
Listed forms: footballs, footballing, footballed.
Source: Wiktionary — football.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
- football game
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is football in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of football
F(4) + O(1) + O(1) + T(1) + B(3) + A(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 13 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 football
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 football
71 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in football. Showing up to 24, longest first.