Firkin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 44 anagrams from letters in firkin (fiiknr).
1400-50; late Middle English ferdkyn, firdekyn, equivalent to ferde (variant of ferthe fourth) + -kin -kin
Cranberries will keep all winter in a firkin of water in the cellar.
He brought me a firkin of butter for my wife, which is very welcome.
At Loanda, capital of the kingdom of Angola, a firkin of wine sells for above thirty pounds sterling.
I have taken your place, and firkin expects you at New York.
Mr. firkin, as usual, was rigorously gentlemanly, in the quiet way.
"I hope he will not try that firkin I packed that hot week in July," Mother would say.
The firkin was brought, turned upside down, and Joe mounted it.
At that moment in the box opposite, I saw our friends, Mr. Boosey and Mr. firkin.
Liar that thou art, Kerry—it would take a cask of one, and a firkin of the other to make up the necessary ointment!
Up he got from his seat upon the firkin, and his head was in the shadows of the smoky timbers.