Definitions for FIR

FIR fir

Spelling: [fur]
IPA: /fɜr/

Fir is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in FIR (fir).

Definitions for FIR

noun

  1. any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
  2. the wood of such a tree.

Origin of FIR

1250-1300; Middle English firre, Old English fyrh; cognate with Old Saxon furie; akin to Old English furh- (in fuhrwudu pine), Old Norse fura fir, Latin quercus oak (*perkwu-)

Examples for FIR

Sonachan gave a grunt, and thumped loudly on the fir boards.

These plants are found on pine and fir trunks and on sawdust heaps.

Then the vine and the snowdrop wept, and the pine-tree and the fir were very sad.

But for all that he only named two trees, for fir and Scotch fir are both the same.

He had carefully investigated the alley of fir branches from the outside.

With the pointer in his hand he touched the star at the apex of the fir.

So he took a bough of fir, thick-set with little twigs, and tied the kill on that.

The Daily Pic: Monika Sosnowska plants her "fir Tree" in Central Park.

We wandered about in the fir wood, and at last came to a pause and rested.

A splinter of fir was burning in the cresset, and the fire was lighted in the stove.

Word Value for FIR
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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