SHEAR — 5 letter word
shear
The word shear has 5 letters: S, H, E, A, R. It contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Shear has 4 anagrams: share, hares, hears, rheas. As a noun, it means "a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it".
5 letter word "shear": S H E A R — noun
Scrabble score: 8 Words With Friends: 7
Letter Analysis of shear
| Letter | Count | Type | Scrabble pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| S | 1 | Consonant | 1 |
| H | 1 | Consonant | 4 |
| E | 1 | Vowel | 1 |
| A | 1 | Vowel | 1 |
| R | 1 | Consonant | 1 |
2 vowels, 3 consonants, 5 unique letters
Definition of shear
noun
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- in physics, a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves "The shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram."
verb
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears "shear hedges"
- cut or cut through with shears "shear the wool off the lamb"
- shear the wool from "shear sheep" Synonyms: fleece