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GLARE

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GLARE Means

  1. noun: a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted“a glare of sunlight”
  2. noun: an angry stare
  3. verb: look at with a fixed gaze“The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her”
  4. verb: be sharply reflected“The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GLARE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 L1 A1 R1 E1.

Anagrams of GLARE (4)

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

Words Made From The Letters In GLARE

41 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 (15)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (9)

Longer Words Containing GLARE

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

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