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SCARE

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SCARE Means

  1. noun: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events“panic in the stock market”
  2. noun: a sudden attack of fear
  3. verb: cause fear in“The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me”
  4. verb: cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away“dashed by the refusal”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCARE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 C3 A1 R1 E1.

Anagrams of SCARE (8)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SCARE

43 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 (18)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing SCARE

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

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