VAR is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. VAR 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 VAR?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAR is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VAR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in VAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does VAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The unit of reactive power in an electrical circuit.
A var measures power that moves back and forth without doing any work, which sounds like nothing and matters enormously: the cables still have to carry it, and utilities charge industry for it. The name began as an acronym and stopped being written in capitals.
How VAR is used
Countable: a var, two vars. Chiefly in electrical engineering.
- The meter reads in vars as well as in watts.
- A var does no work and still costs money.
- Correcting the power factor cuts the vars and not the watts.
- Industry is billed for vars and households are not.
- The word var was an acronym before it was a unit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of VAR
The 3 tiles of VAR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with VAR
Showing 24 of 181 words that begin with VAR.
Words ending in VAR
11 words end in VAR. Useful as a back hook: play VAR onto a word already on the board.
Words with VAR inside
Showing 24 of 173 words that contain VAR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with VAR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VAR
Common questions about VAR
- Is VAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VAR, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VAR worth?
- VAR is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAR mean?
- The unit of reactive power in an electrical circuit.
- What letters can be added to VAR?
- VAR takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of VAR:
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