calendar
Calendar meaning: a system for organizing dates, time, or plans; CALENDAR scores 11 Scrabble points.
Noun 4 meanings
Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
“The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.”
A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
“Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.”
A list of planned events.
“The club has a busy calendar this year.”
An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
“a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court”
Verb 2 meanings
To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
“The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.”
To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
Etymology
From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
Similar and opposite words
Calendar is an everyday noun with several related senses: a system dividing time into days, weeks, months, and years; a dated document; a schedule of planned events; or an orderly list of people or things. That range explains why it appears both on a wall planner and in phrases about a busy calendar. Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE recognize the spelling, making it familiar beyond word games.
Calendar meaning at a glance
- CALENDAR has eight letters and is worth 11 Scrabble points before board bonuses.
- Its only listed anagram uses every tile: LANDRACE.
- Three one-letter neighbours are CALENDER, KALENDAR, and CALENDAL.
- Among eight-letter words, 9% begin with C and 6% end with R.
How many points does CALENDAR score?
CALENDAR scores 11 points from its standard Scrabble tile values: C is worth 3, D is worth 2, and the six remaining tiles are worth 1 each. That sum is easy to verify before you play. C is the only tile doing more than a single point of work.
The rack has two As and no repeated consonant, so the repeated vowel is the only duplicate to track when checking a rack. An empty premium square changes the total, meaning 11 is the tile value, not a fixed score for every board position.
A double-letter square under C adds 3 points to the letter subtotal. Word multipliers affect the full play, so the final score depends on where you place the word.
Which words resemble CALENDAR?
Only one anagram appears: LANDRACE rearranges the same letters into another eight-letter form. The close spellings are CALENDER, KALENDAR, and CALENDAL. Changing one letter creates a different entry, not an automatic alternate spelling in every game.
CALENDAR is a much more familiar everyday word than its anagram, so treat LANDRACE as a tile option rather than assuming the words share a meaning. The noun can refer to timekeeping, dated documents, schedules, or orderly lists; context tells you which sense fits.
For wordplay, CALENDAR’s rhyme tail is DAR. RADAR and CEDAR are two of its 12 listed rhymes, giving you familiar examples alongside less common matches.
Rhymes with calendar
All rhymes- RADAR6
- CEDAR8
- CHEDDAR14
- SARDAR7
- LIDAR6
- BANDAR9
- GAYDAR11
- ZAMINDAR20
- SUBEDAR10
- SIRDAR7
- DEODAR8
- HAVILDAR15
One letter away
- CALENDER11
- KALENDAR13
- CALENDAL11
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