Definitions For Third

noun

  • The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
  • The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
  • The third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
  • The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
  • One of three equal parts of a divisible whole
  • Following the second position in an ordering or series

adjective

  • Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

adverb

  • In the third place

verb

  • Something that is third : the third thing in a series
  • One of three equal parts of something
  • The third forward gear or speed of a vehicle

Is Thirds 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
10
Words with Friends
9

The word Third is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Third in a Sentence

  • We sat in the third row.
  • The third house on the left
  • C is the third letter in the alphabet.
  • The win was his third of the year.
  • A third of the pie
  • Rent costs two-thirds of my paycheck.

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