CHARE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CHARE 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 CHARE?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHARE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHARE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHARE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHARE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about CHARE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 CHARE mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectBritish
To do odd jobs of housework by the day, without being a permanently hired servant.
Chare is an old form of the word that later gave English char and charwoman, someone hired to clean a house on a casual, day-by-day basis rather than living in as full-time staff. A related and separate sense of chare, spelled the same way, names a narrow lane or alley, a use still heard in northern English cities such as Newcastle, where old chares run between larger streets. Both senses have faded from everyday speech, surviving mainly in regional dialect and in historical writing about domestic service or old town layouts.
How CHARE is used
Rare and mainly regional; the housework sense is close to the more familiar char, and the lane sense survives chiefly in northern English place names.
- She used to chare for two households on opposite sides of town.
- The old woman would chare three days a week to make ends meet.
- He agreed to chare for the family until a permanent maid was hired.
- She continued to chare after her regular position ended.
- Neighbors said she would chare wherever extra hands were needed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHARE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CHARE
The 5 tiles of CHARE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CHARE
6 longer words begin with CHARE.
Shorter words from the letters in CHARE
Common questions about CHARE
- Is CHARE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHARE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHARE worth?
- CHARE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHARE mean?
- To do odd jobs of housework by the day, without being a permanently hired servant.
- What letters can be added to CHARE?
- CHARE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHARE:
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