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SNEER

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SNEER Means

  1. noun: a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
  2. noun: a contemptuous or scornful remark
  3. verb: express through a scornful smile“she sneered her contempt”
  4. verb: smile contemptuously“she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SNEER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 N1 E1 E1 R1.

Anagrams of SNEER (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SNEER

32 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 (13)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing SNEER

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

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