OAR is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. OAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OAR?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OAR is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OAR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 374.
What does OAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
A pole with a flat blade used for rowing.
An oar is fixed to the boat and a paddle is not, which is the whole distinction and is regularly got wrong. Putting your oar in is sixteenth-century and meant interfering with somebody else's rowing.
How OAR is used
Countable: an oar, two oars.
- An oar is attached to the boat and a paddle is not.
- He put his oar in and the meeting lost an hour.
- The word oar is Old English and unchanged.
- Two oars and one of them shorter than the other.
- Rowing with a single oar takes it in turns to be useless.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OAR
The 3 tiles of OAR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OAR
22 longer words begin with OAR.
Words ending in OAR
11 words end in OAR. Useful as a back hook: play OAR onto a word already on the board.
Words with OAR inside
Showing 24 of 551 words that contain OAR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OAR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OAR
Common questions about OAR
- Is OAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OAR, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OAR worth?
- OAR is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OAR mean?
- A pole with a flat blade used for rowing.
- What letters can be added to OAR?
- OAR takes 7 hooks: 5 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OAR:
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