Definitions for Filbert

Filbert fil·bert

Spelling: [fil-bert]
IPA: /ˈfɪl bərt/

Filbert is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in Filbert (befilrt).

Definitions for Filbert

noun

  1. the thick-shelled, edible nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, especially of Corylus avellana, of Europe.
  2. a tree or shrub bearing such nuts.

Origin of Filbert

1250-1300; Middle English, short for filbert nut, so called because ripe by Aug. 22 (St. Philbert's day)

Examples for Filbert

I have seen them from the size of a filbert to that of my fist.

Well, I would not give a filbert for all the women born since mother Eve!

Whenever I have a mind for a filbert, I have only to shake my foretop.

Your letter of Aug. 2, relating to the disease of the filbert, is at hand.

Over the roots of the filbert, fig, and mulberry, crept the prolific melon.

The guayaba is in the form of a filbert, and is the size of a fig.

White, green, blue and red, eyes of the size of filbert nuts.

So filbert staid, and was as happy as a bird in the one-eyed house.

Furthermore, he was so daffy and curdled in the filbert that he sold three times as much as he had.

The Secretary: There has been no discussion at all of the filbert, I think.

Word Value for Filbert
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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