Is OAR a Scrabble word?
Yes. OAR is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends.
Meaning A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
Noun 3 meanings
A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
An oarsman; a rower.
“He is a good oar.”
An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
Verb 1 meaning
To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
Etymology
From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.
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OAR at a glance
OAR has 3 letters and scores 3 points in Scrabble (O 1 + A 1 + R 1) and 3 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #32,327 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -OAR
More endings- ROAR4
- SOAR4
- BOAR6
- UPROAR8
- HOAR7
- BEZOAR17
- VOAR7
- OUTSOAR7
- OUTROAR7
- UPSOAR8
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