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SHEER

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SHEER Means

  1. adjective: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers“absolute freedom”
  2. adjective: not mixed with extraneous elements“plain water”
  3. verb: turn sharply; change direction abruptly“The car cut to the left at the intersection”
  4. verb: cause to sheer“She sheered her car around the obstacle”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SHEER 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 E1 R1.

Anagrams of SHEER (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SHEER

26 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 (8)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing SHEER

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

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