25 words come out when you unscramble TEAR, starting with TEAR itself: 4 in Scrabble, 4 in Words With Friends. TEAR has 3 anagrams here, ARET, RATE and TARE, scoring 4 like TEAR itself. The best shorter words score 3: 12 of them, ARE, ART and EAT included. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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By length, the words from TEAR split into 4 with 4 letters, 12 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of TEAR but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with TE · ending in AR · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to TEAR:
TEAR first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TEAR, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEAR itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 25) | 23 | 25 | 22 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: ARET and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of TEAR and one more.