film noir

NOUN
9 LETTERS · STARTS WITH F

film noir is a valid 9-letter word worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
F4I1L1M3N1O1I1R1
4 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =13 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 26TRIPLE WORD → 39
MEANING

What does film noir mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
1

A movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters.

“film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s”