Scrabble & Words with friends points
- spare is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- spare is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- spare is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8
Definition of spare
- not taken up by scheduled activities (adjective)
Examples
- spare time on my hands
Synonyms
- free
- thin and fit (adjective)
Examples
- the spare figure of a marathon runner
Synonyms
- trim
- refrain from harming (verb)
Synonyms
- save
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation (adjective)
Synonyms
- bare
- plain
- unembellished
- unornamented
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle (noun)
Synonyms
- fifth wheel
- give up what is not strictly needed (verb)
Examples
- he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
Synonyms
- dispense with
- give up
- part with
- more than is needed, desired, or required (adjective)
Examples
- sleeping in the spare room
Synonyms
- excess
- extra
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- supernumerary
- surplus
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus (noun)
Synonyms
- spare part
- lacking in magnitude or quantity (adjective)
Examples
- a spare diet
Synonyms
- bare
- scanty
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls (noun)
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use (adjective)
Examples
- a spare tire
- spare parts
- save or relieve from an experience or action (verb)
Examples
- I'll spare you from having to apologize formally
- use frugally or carefully (verb)
See definition of spare in Merriam Webster