What SONAR Means
- noun: a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return“sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SONAR 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 O1 N1 A1 R1.
Anagrams of SONAR (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SONAR
31 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 (14)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing SONAR
SONAR appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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