Why YAR words matter
Words containing YAR are handy for Scrabble, Words with Friends and word puzzles — filter the list above by length to find the play you need.
This list by the numbers
Inside this list: 117 words spanning 3–15 letters. The biggest cluster sits at 8 letters (33 words), 7 entries are Wordle-sized at five letters, and 15 run to seven — bingo length if you can empty the rack. For points, the ceiling is TACHYARRHYTHMIA, worth 34.
The five biggest scorers on the page: TACHYARRHYTHMIA (34), CHURCHYARDS (25), CHURCHYARD (24), JUNKYARDS (24), JUNKYARD (23). At 15 letters, TACHYARRHYTHMIA is the longest word on the list; a typical entry scores around 15. Letter-wise, A is the workhorse — it appears in 117 of these words, ahead of Y (117) and R (117).
Three easy picks from this list
- When the rack looks hopeless, YAREST (6 letters, 9 points) is the kind of quiet play that keeps a game moving.
- YARNER — 6 letters for 9 points; every tile in it is a common draw, so it shows up rack after rack.
- Playing LYART across a double-word square turns its base 8 points into 16 — solid value for 5 tiles.
Round out your set with YARER (8), YARNS (8), YARNED (10), YARE (7), YARN (7) — all built from common tiles.
One chunk, many words: YAR
Groups like this one reward a different kind of practice: pick five words of different lengths from the list above, write each in a sentence, and the YAR pattern moves into long-term memory. It is also a quiet Scrabble edge — racks that spell YAR plus common tiles come up constantly, and prepared players cash them in while others shuffle letters.
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