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STARE

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What STARE Means

  1. verb: look at with fixed eyes“The students stared at the teacher with amazement”
  2. verb: fixate one's eyes“The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly”
  3. noun: a fixed look with eyes open wide

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STARE 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 T1 A1 R1 E1.

Anagrams of STARE (12)

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

Words Made From The Letters In STARE

68 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 (29)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (12)

Longer Words Containing STARE

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

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