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DEARS

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DEARS Means

DEARS is a form of DEAR, which means:

  1. adjective: dearly loved
  2. adjective: with or in a close or intimate relationship“a good friend”
  3. noun: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
  4. noun: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DEARS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 A1 R1 S1.

Anagrams of DEARS (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DEARS

50 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 (18)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (11)

Longer Words Containing DEARS

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

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