Definitions For Fail

verb

  • Get worse
  • Stop operating or functioning
  • Prove insufficient
  • Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
  • Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
  • Fall short in what is expected
  • Fail to get a passing grade
  • Judge unacceptable
  • Be unsuccessful
  • Fail to do something; leave something undone
  • Be unable
  • To not succeed : to end without success
  • To not succeed as a business : to become bankrupt
  • To not do (something that you should do or are expected to do)

Is Fails a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
9

The word Fail is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Fail in a Sentence

  • He failed in his first attempt but succeeded in his second attempt.
  • His first company failed, but his second company succeeded.
  • He felt that he had failed her when she needed him most.

Synonyms for Fail

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