tears

/tɪɹz/

noun

Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.

NWL Collins ENABLE Wordle guess list

Noun 1 meaning

Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.

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TEARS at a glance

TEARS has 5 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + A 1 + R 1 + S 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,134 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

Rhymes with tears

All rhymes

YEARS₈
CARS₆
STARS₅
APPEARS₁₁
DOLLARS₈
WARS₇
BARS₆
EARS₄
BEARS₇
MARS₆
FEARS₈
SCHOLARS₁₃

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YEARS₈
TEAMS₇
BEARS₇
FEARS₈
WEARS₈
HEARS₈
GEARS₆
SEARS₅
PEARS₇
NEARS₅
TEARY₈
REARS₅
DEARS₆
TEATS₅
TSARS₅
TEALS₅
LEARS₅
TEERS₅

Scrabble

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Letters

Vowels

Where the points come from

Every tile in TEARS is worth 1 point, so its score comes from length, not rare letters.

How common is it?

TEARS is more common than 96% of 5-letter words, so almost every player knows it.

How rare are its letters?

T is the rarest letter here: only 23% of 5-letter words contain one. S is the most common (46%).

Anagrams

Same 5 letters, different words

RATESAll three

STAREAll three

TASERCollins · NWL

ASTERAll three

TARESAll three

TERASCollins only

Wordle

TEARS is accepted as a Wordle guess, but it is not on the answer list. As a guess it tests 5 different letters: T, E, A, R, S.

As a Wordle opener

TEARS leaves about 75.4 of the 2,315 answers on average, better than 100% of the 12,694 words Wordle accepts.

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