NAVAR is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NAVAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NAVAR?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NAVAR is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NAVAR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
navarsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NAVAR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NAVAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about NAVAR
- 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 NAVAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalhistorical
An early ground-based radar system for guiding aircraft, in which radar on the ground tracked a plane's position near an airport and relayed it to the pilot.
Navar takes its name from a blend of navigation and radar, describing a mid-twentieth-century system built to help pilots land safely in poor visibility before satellite navigation existed. Ground controllers operating navar equipment tracked an approaching aircraft's exact position on radar and then radioed precise course corrections up to the pilot, who had no equivalent display in the cockpit. The system worked alongside other early approach-guidance technologies developed for military and civil airports handling difficult weather conditions. Modern satellite-based navigation and instrument landing systems have long since replaced navar, so the term now appears mainly in histories of aviation and air traffic control technology.
How NAVAR is used
A specialised, largely historical aviation term, met mainly in writing about the early development of radar-guided aircraft navigation.
- Controllers relied on navar to guide the aircraft through thick fog.
- The airport installed navar equipment in the early years of radar.
- Pilots trusted the ground crew's navar readings during poor visibility.
- Navar eventually gave way to more advanced landing systems.
- The history of aviation devotes a chapter to early navar technology.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NAVAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NAVAR
The 5 tiles of NAVAR in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with NAVAR
9 longer words begin with NAVAR.
Shorter words from the letters in NAVAR
Common questions about NAVAR
- Is NAVAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NAVAR, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NAVAR worth?
- NAVAR is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NAVAR mean?
- An early ground-based radar system for guiding aircraft, in which radar on the ground tracked a plane's position near an airport and relayed it to the pilot.
- What letters can be added to NAVAR?
- NAVAR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NAVAR:
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