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Is sear a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sear is a Scrabble US word. The word sear is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is sear a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sear is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

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4-letter words (7 found)

ARES,ARSE,EARS,ERAS,RASE,SEAR,SERA,

3-letter words (12 found)

ARE,ARS,EAR,EAS,ERA,ERS,RAS,RES,SAE,SAR,SEA,SER,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AR,AS,EA,ER,ES,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 27 words from sear according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sear

sear

English

Alternative forms

  • sere
  • sare

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /sɪɚ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: cere, seer, sere

Etymology 1

From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h₂sews-).

Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian saũsas (“dry”), Ukrainian сухий (suxyj, “dry”), Polish suchy (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.

Adjective

sear (comparative searer or more sear, superlative searest or most sear)

  1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.

Etymology 2

From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).

Verb

sear (third-person singular simple present sears, present participle searing, simple past and past participle seared)

  1. (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
  2. To wither; to dry up.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To make callous or insensible.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
Derived terms
  • reverse-sear
Translations

Noun

sear (plural sears)

  1. A scar produced by searing
  2. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • Sare, EARs, eras, arse, AREs, Sera, Ersa, ERAs, reas, sera, ears, RASE, SERA, rase, Ares, ares, ARSE, sare

Old English

Adjective

sēar

  1. alternative form of sīere

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Variant of the synonym an ear, from Old Irish an air (“from before”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɛr/

Adjective

sear

  1. eastern, east

Synonyms

  • an ear

Antonyms

  • siar

References

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sear”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *sēr, from Proto-West Germanic *sair. Compare English sore, Dutch zeer.

Adjective

sear

  1. painful

Inflection

Further reading

  • “sear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Noun

sear n (plural searen)

  1. pain
  2. wound

Further reading

  • “sear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org