Unscramble DEAR to get 22 words. DEAR itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 5 in Words With Friends. DEAR has 5 anagrams here, ARED, DARE, EARD, RADE and READ, scoring 5 like DEAR itself. 4 shorter words score 4, among them RED, RAD and ARD. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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By length, the words from DEAR split into 6 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 9 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of DEAR, with one letter different:
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The meaning of DEAR, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DEAR works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEAR itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 22) | 16 | 22 | 15 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 6 of them: ARED, EARD, RADE, ARD, DAE and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: DA.
Each word below uses all the letters of DEAR and one more.