fall
fall is a valid 4-letter word worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
What does fall mean?
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.
“The barometer is falling”
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.
Decrease in size, extent, or range.
Come as if by falling.
Come under, be classified or included.
“fall into a category”
Be inherited by.
Assume a disappointed or sad expression.
Be born, used chiefly of lambs.
Be captured.
Be cast down.
Be due.
“payments fall on the 1st of the month”
Begin vigorously.
Come out; issue.
Come into the possession of.
Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity.
Die, as in battle or in a hunt.
“Several deer have fallen to the same gun”
Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position.
Go as if by falling.
Lose office or power.
Lose one's chastity.
“a fallen woman”
Move in a specified direction.
“The line of men fall forward”
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.
“when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall”
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.
A downward slope or bend.
The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
“in the fall of 1973”
The time of day immediately following sunset.
“they finished before the fall of night”
A sudden drop from an upright position.
The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions).
A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity.
“a fall from virtue”
A movement downward.
“the rise and fall of the tides”