SANSAR is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SANSAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SANSAR?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SANSAR is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SANSAR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sansarsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SANSAR scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SANSAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does SANSAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
rareliterary
A cold, whistling wind that blows across Iran, especially in winter.
Sansar is a specific named wind, not just any wind, so it turns up in accounts of the Persian climate rather than in everyday weather talk. It is recorded in English mainly as a borrowing describing the bitter winter gusts of Iran, prized by writers who wanted a precise, exotic term instead of a generic word like cold or gale. The same wind is also spelled sarsar in older sources, but sansar is the form used here. Because the word names a real regional wind rather than a general phenomenon, it survives chiefly in descriptive and literary writing about Persia.
How SANSAR is used
Rare; appears in descriptions of Persian weather and in word-list reference works rather than in everyday speech.
- Travelers described the sansar as bitter enough to freeze exposed skin within minutes.
- No ordinary breeze, the sansar swept down from the mountains each winter.
- She had never felt anything like the sansar during her first winter in Iran.
- Old geography texts warn caravans to shelter before the sansar arrives.
- The poem gives the sansar a voice, howling across the frozen plain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SANSAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SANSAR
The 6 tiles of SANSAR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SANSAR
1 longer words begin with SANSAR.
Shorter words from the letters in SANSAR
Common questions about SANSAR
- Is SANSAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SANSAR, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SANSAR worth?
- SANSAR is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SANSAR mean?
- A cold, whistling wind that blows across Iran, especially in winter.
- What letters can be added to SANSAR?
- SANSAR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SANSAR:
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