What SHEAR Means
- verb: cut with shears“shear hedges”
- verb: shear the wool from“shear sheep”
- noun: (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves“the shear changed the rectangle into a parallelogram”
- noun: a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHEAR is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 E1 A1 R1.
Anagrams of SHEAR (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SHEAR
51 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 (16)
3 letter words (23)
2 letter words (12)
Longer Words Containing SHEAR
SHEAR appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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