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CHARS

5 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What CHARS Means

CHARS is a form of CHAR, which means:

  1. noun: a charred substance
  2. noun: a human female employed to do housework“the char will clean the carpet”
  3. verb: burn to charcoal“Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything”
  4. verb: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color“The cook blackened the chicken breast”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CHARS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 H4 A1 R1 S1.

Anagrams of CHARS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In CHARS

29 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing CHARS

CHARS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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