LAR is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. LAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LAR?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LAR is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LAR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in LAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 749.
What does LAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A household god of ancient Rome.
The lares guarded a house and received offerings at a small shrine indoors. A separate lar is the white-handed gibbon, named from the same Latin word by a naturalist who thought the animal looked ghostly.
How LAR is used
Countable; the plural is lares.
- A lar guarded the house and not the family outside it.
- The word lar also names a gibbon.
- Offerings to a lar were made indoors at a small shrine.
- Two lares in one household was normal.
- The gibbon called a lar was named for looking ghostly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LAR
Showing 24 of 175 words that begin with LAR.
Words ending in LAR
Showing 24 of 484 words that end in LAR. Useful as a back hook: play LAR onto a word already on the board.
Words with LAR inside
Showing 24 of 1167 words that contain LAR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LAR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LAR
Common questions about LAR
- Is LAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LAR, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LAR worth?
- LAR is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LAR mean?
- A household god of ancient Rome.
- What letters can be added to LAR?
- LAR takes 7 hooks: 1 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of LAR:
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