BOYAR is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BOYAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOYAR?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOYAR is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOYAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOYAR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOYAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does BOYAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A member of the old aristocracy of Russia, ranking immediately below the ruling princes.
A boyar belonged to a class of landowning nobles who advised, and sometimes rivalled, the tsar before Peter the Great reorganized the Russian nobility in the early eighteenth century. Historians use boyar to describe this rank across medieval and early modern Russia, and a related title existed in Romania and other Slavic lands as well. The class largely disappeared once new systems of nobility and civil service replaced it.
How BOYAR is used
Historical noun, usually capitalized in translations of Russian titles and used mainly by historians and novelists.
- The boyar owned vast estates worked by serfs.
- Rival boyars often plotted against one another at court.
- Peter the Great stripped the boyars of much of their old power.
- The novel follows a boyar family through years of upheaval.
- A council of boyars once helped govern the tsar's realm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOYAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOYAR
5 longer words begin with BOYAR.
Shorter words from the letters in BOYAR
Common questions about BOYAR
- Is BOYAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOYAR, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOYAR worth?
- BOYAR is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOYAR mean?
- A member of the old aristocracy of Russia, ranking immediately below the ruling princes.
- What letters can be added to BOYAR?
- BOYAR takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOYAR:
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