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Is tear a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word tear is a Scrabble US word. The word tear is worth 4 points in Scrabble:
T1E1A1R1
Is tear a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word tear is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:
T1E1A1R1
Is tear a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word tear is a Words With Friends word. The word tear is worth 4 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
T1E1A1R1
ARET 4 | RATE 4 |
TARE 4 | TEAR 4 |
ARE 3 | ART 3 |
ATE 3 | EAR 3 |
EAT 3 | ERA 3 |
ETA 3 | RAT 3 |
RET 3 | TAE 3 |
TAR 3 | TEA 3 |
AE 2 | AR 2 |
AT 2 | EA 2 |
ER 2 | ET 2 |
RE 2 | TA 2 |
TE 2 |
tear etar taer ater eatr aetr tera etra trea rtea erta reta tare atre trae rtae arte rate eart aert erat reat aret raet
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word tear. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in tear.
From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.
tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past tore, past participle torn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) tore)
tear (plural tears)
From Middle English teer, ter, tere, tear, from Old English tēar, tǣr, tæhher, teagor, *teahor (“drop; tear; what is distilled from anything in drops, nectar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tah(h)r, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (“tears”).
Cognates include Old Norse tár (Danish tåre and Norwegian tåre), Old High German zahar (German Zähre), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr), Irish deoir and Latin lacrima.
tear (plural tears)
tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past and past participle teared)
Tea (“cloth”) + -ar. Compare Portuguese tear and Spanish telar.
tear m (plural teares)
tear
From Proto-West Germanic *tah(h)r, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą.
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian tār, Old High German zahar, Old Norse tár, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 (tagr).
tēar m
From teia + -ar.
tear m (plural teares)
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tear c (plural tearen, diminutive tearke)