What GEAR Means
- noun: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- noun: wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed“the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain”
- verb: set the level or character of“She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GEAR is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 E1 A1 R1.
Anagrams of GEAR (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In GEAR
16 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 (6)
Longer Words Containing GEAR
GEAR appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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