Definitions for THIEF

THIEF thief

Spelling: [theef]
IPA: /θif/

Thief is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in THIEF (efhit).

Definitions for THIEF

noun

  1. a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force; one guilty of theft or larceny.

Origin of THIEF

before 900; Middle English; Old English thēof; cognate with Dutch dief, German Dieb, Old Norse thjōfr, Gothic thiufs

Examples for THIEF

Mortimer was either a thief or a hero; there could be no question about that.

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that.

Dear thief is worthy of the abused critical adjectives philosophical, atmospheric, and masterful.

You're the thief—Levi West—you come here and stole my daddy from me ye did.

His Nigeria book, Every Day is For the thief, was actually written in 2006, prior to Open City.

Cole was clearly experimenting with this, the signature curve of his storytelling, while writing Every Day Is for the thief.

"The less reason, then, for her being a thief," Gilder grumbled in his heaviest voice.

Their shame was hers: the son of her mother, the son of her father was a thief!

All a thief had to do was take off the dial knob on the safe and place the little joker on inside of it.

Against all evidence she was holding this man honest, believing her brother the thief.

Word Value for THIEF
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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