BLEAR is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BLEAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BLEAR?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLEAR is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLEAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BLEAR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BLEAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about BLEAR
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BLEAR mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Dim, blurred, or watery in appearance, said especially of eyes that are tired, inflamed, or clouded with age.
Blear describes the dulled, unfocused look of eyes worn out by lack of sleep, illness, or age, a sense that survives most often today in the derived word bleary rather than in blear itself. As a verb, to blear the eyes once meant to dim or cloud them, whether through tears, smoke, or fatigue, and the same idea of a clouded, indistinct quality could extend to a blear morning or a blear light barely cutting through fog. Modern English leans heavily on bleary-eyed for the everyday sense, leaving plain blear feeling somewhat older and more literary by comparison.
How BLEAR is used
Somewhat old-fashioned in its plain form, largely replaced in everyday speech by bleary, though still met in literary and older writing.
- His blear eyes struggled to focus on the small print.
- Smoke from the fire had left everyone's eyes blear and stinging.
- A blear light filtered weakly through the morning fog.
- Years of night shifts had given the nurse a permanently blear look.
- She rubbed her blear eyes and reached for another cup of coffee.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLEAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BLEAR
The 5 tiles of BLEAR in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with BLEAR
12 longer words begin with BLEAR.
Shorter words from the letters in BLEAR
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Common questions about BLEAR
- Is BLEAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLEAR, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLEAR worth?
- BLEAR is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLEAR mean?
- Dim, blurred, or watery in appearance, said especially of eyes that are tired, inflamed, or clouded with age.
- What letters can be added to BLEAR?
- BLEAR takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BLEAR:
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