WAR is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. WAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAR?
| 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: 57 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAR is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 10 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAR
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAR scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does WAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
Armed conflict between countries or groups.
War came into English from a Germanic word meaning confusion, and the Latin term it displaced survives only in bellicose and belligerent. The change happened because French speakers could not manage the Latin one — an invasion changed the word for invasion.
How WAR is used
Countable and uncountable: a war, at war.
- The war lasted four years and settled almost nothing.
- A war of that length exhausts the winner as well.
- They have been at war with the council since 2011.
- The word war replaced a Latin one after the conquest.
- Two wars in one generation emptied the village.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WAR
The 3 tiles of WAR in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WAR
Showing 24 of 311 words that begin with WAR.
Words ending in WAR
18 words end in WAR. Useful as a back hook: play WAR onto a word already on the board.
Words with WAR inside
Showing 24 of 736 words that contain WAR somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WAR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAR
Common questions about WAR
- Is WAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAR, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAR worth?
- WAR is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAR mean?
- Armed conflict between countries or groups.
- What letters can be added to WAR?
- WAR takes 10 hooks: 0 in front and 10 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WAR:
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