POLAR is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. POLAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLAR?
| 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 POLAR is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POLAR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POLAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about POLAR
- 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 POLAR mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Relating to the North or South Pole, or more generally involving two sharply opposite ends or extremes.
A polar region sits at one of the earth's two poles, cold and largely covered in ice, and animals adapted to survive there, such as the polar bear, take their name from this same sense. Chemists borrowed the word for molecules that have a positive end and a negative end, called a polar molecule, because the uneven pull on electrons mirrors the two opposite poles of a magnet. From there, English stretched polar further still, so that two ideas or opinions can be described as polar opposites even when neither has anything to do with ice or electricity. In every sense, the word keeps the same underlying picture, two ends pulling apart from each other.
How POLAR is used
Common in geography and everyday speech for the poles; equally standard in chemistry and physics for opposite electrical charge.
- Polar bears hunt seals along the edges of the sea ice.
- Water is a polar molecule, which explains why it dissolves salt so easily.
- The two candidates held polar opposite views on the same issue.
- Scientists study how polar ice sheets respond to rising temperatures.
- A compass needle points toward the earth's magnetic polar region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POLAR
The 5 tiles of POLAR in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with POLAR
Showing 24 of 42 words that begin with POLAR.
Words ending in POLAR
17 words end in POLAR. Useful as a back hook: play POLAR onto a word already on the board.
Words with POLAR inside
Showing 24 of 65 words that contain POLAR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POLAR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POLAR
Common questions about POLAR
- Is POLAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLAR, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLAR worth?
- POLAR is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLAR mean?
- Relating to the North or South Pole, or more generally involving two sharply opposite ends or extremes.
- What letters can be added to POLAR?
- POLAR takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POLAR:
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