Word.ws English Dictionary

false nine

false nine noun: an unconventional lone striker or centre forward who drops deep into midfield.

Noun

false nine (plural false nines)

  1. An unconventional lone striker or centre forward who drops deep into midfield.

Forms of false nine

pluralfalse nines

Questions about false nine

What does false nine mean?
False nine means an unconventional lone striker or centre forward who drops deep into midfield.
What part of speech is false nine?
False nine is a noun.
What is the plural of false nine?
The plural of false nine is false nines.

Words near false nine in the dictionary

  1. false morels
  2. false move
  3. false moves
  4. false negative
  5. false negatives
  6. false nine
  7. false nines
  8. false northing
  9. false northings
  10. false note
  11. false notes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: false nine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “false nine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/false_nine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.