Is GEARS a word?
GEARS is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 5 other words, plus 42 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, GEARS is a valid word.
What does gears mean?
GEARS is an inflected form of gear.
noun: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
GEARS: word details
- Pronunciation: GIHRZ (approx., 1 syllable)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 6 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 7 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so GEARS works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of gears
Shorter words inside gears
Words you can make from the letters of gears.
Solve a whole rack, not just GEARS
GEARS is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does GEARS mean?
GEARS is an inflected form of gear and is a noun. It means: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
Is GEARS a valid word?
Yes, GEARS is a valid word. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.