TARRE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. TARRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TARRE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TARRE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TARRE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TARRE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TARRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,746.
What stands out about TARRE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 TARRE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To incite or urge on, especially a dog set to attack.
Tarre survives mainly through a handful of lines in Elizabethan drama, where a character is tarred into a quarrel the way a dog is set on its target. The word had almost dropped out of use even during Shakespeare's own lifetime, which is part of why it appears so rarely outside quotation. Dictionaries keep the entry alive chiefly for readers working through old texts rather than for anyone likely to use it in speech. Nothing distinguishes tarre from ordinary verbs of provoking except its age and its narrow range of surviving examples.
How TARRE is used
Archaic; encountered chiefly in Elizabethan and earlier writing, rarely in modern prose.
- The crowd would tarre the dogs to fight for a coin.
- He was tarred on by companions who wanted a scene.
- To tarre a hound against a bear was common sport once.
- The old play has a nobleman tarre his rivals into open war.
- Nobody tarres anything in modern English outside a footnote.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TARRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TARRE
The 5 tiles of TARRE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with TARRE
2 longer words begin with TARRE.
Words with TARRE inside
7 words contain TARRE in the middle. Words that start with TARRE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TARRE
Common questions about TARRE
- Is TARRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TARRE, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TARRE worth?
- TARRE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TARRE mean?
- To incite or urge on, especially a dog set to attack.
- What letters can be added to TARRE?
- TARRE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TARRE:
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