Definitions for filberts

filberts fil·bert

Spelling: [fil-bert]
IPA: /ˈfɪl bərt/

Filberts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 385 anagrams from letters in filberts (befilrst).

Definitions for filberts

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 filberts

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

Examples for filberts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for filberts
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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