What FEAR Means
- verb: be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event“I fear she might get aggressive”
- verb: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of“I fear the winters in Moscow”
- noun: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- noun: an anxious feeling“care had aged him”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FEAR is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 E1 A1 R1.
Anagrams of FEAR (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In FEAR
18 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.
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (8)
Longer Words Containing FEAR
FEAR appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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