elfin

elfin is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to elves. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Relating to elves.
2. noun. A little elf or urchin.
3. adjective. small and delicate

   "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"

   "obsessed by things elfin and small"

   Synonyms: elflike

4. adjective. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness- John Mason Brown

   "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"

   "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"

   Synonyms: fey

5. adjective. usually good-naturedly mischievous

   "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"

   "elvish tricks"

   Synonyms: elfish, elvish

6. adjective. relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf

   "elfin bells"

   "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"

Synonyms

elflike, fey, elfish, elvish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in elfin:

lifen, nifle

Common word forms

elfins

Words from these letters

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