SPARES

What SPARES Means

SPARES is a form of SPAR, which means:

1. verb: furnish with spars
2. verb: fight with spurs“the gamecocks were sparring”
3. noun: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
4. noun: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SPARES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 A1 R1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of SPARES (8)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SPARES

85 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.

5 letter words (23)

4 letter words (28)

3 letter words (25)

2 letter words (9)

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