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Is smear a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word smear is a Scrabble US word. The word smear is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

S1M3E1A1R1

Is smear a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word smear is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

S1M3E1A1R1

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Yes. The word smear is a Words With Friends word. The word smear is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (5 found)

MARES,MARSE,MASER,REAMS,SMEAR,

4-letter words (19 found)

AMES,ARES,ARMS,ARSE,EARS,ERAS,MAES,MARE,MARS,MASE,MESA,RAMS,RASE,REAM,REMS,SAME,SEAM,SEAR,SERA,

3-letter words (24 found)

AME,ARE,ARM,ARS,EAR,EAS,EMS,ERA,ERM,ERS,MAE,MAR,MAS,MES,RAM,RAS,REM,RES,SAE,SAM,SAR,SEA,SER,SMA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AM,AR,AS,EA,EM,ER,ES,MA,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 60 words from smear according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of smear

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Definitions and meaning of smear

smear

Etymology

From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: smî(r), IPA(key): /smɪə(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: smîr, IPA(key): /smiɚ/, IPA(key): /smɪɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Verb

smear (third-person singular simple present smears, present participle smearing, simple past and past participle smeared)

  1. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
    Synonyms: apply, daub, plaster, spread
  2. (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
    Synonyms: bedaub, coat, cover, daub, layer, plaster
  3. (transitive) To make something dirty.
    Synonyms: besmirch, dirty, soil, sully
  4. (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
  5. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
    Synonyms: badmouth, besmirch, defame, sully, vilify
    • 1976, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, “J.M.—A Writer’s Tribute” in Writers in Politics, London: Heinemann, 1981, p. 82,[8]
      The imperialist foreigners then in the offices of the Nation Newspapers would not allow the African staff to review it. They handled it themselves in order to smear the book and its author and his celebration of Mau Mau resistance.
  6. (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
    Synonyms: blur, smudge
  7. (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
    Synonym: smudge
  8. (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
  9. (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
  10. (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
  11. (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
    • 1960, Katherine Anne Porter, “Holiday” in Douglas and Sylvia Angus (eds.), Contemporary American Short Stories, New York: Ballantine, 1983, p. 323,[21]
      […] she stood and shook with silent crying, smearing away her tears with the open palm of her hand.
  12. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.

Derived terms

  • asmear
  • besmear
  • smearer
  • smear the queer

Translations

Noun

smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)

  1. A mark made by smearing.
    Synonym: streak
    This detergent cleans windows without leaving smears.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
    Synonyms: calumny, slander, slur, mudslinging
  3. (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
    Synonym: squash
  4. (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
    Synonyms: cervical smear, Pap test
    I'm going to the doctor's this afternoon for a smear.
  5. (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
  6. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
  7. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

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Anagrams

  • MASER, Mares, Marse, mares, marse, maser, mears, rames, reams

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