tar

tar is a 3-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sailor; a seaman. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 3 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sailor; a seaman.
2. noun. A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
3. transitive verb. To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
4. noun. a man who serves as a sailor

   Synonyms: gob, jack, mariner, seafarer, seaman

5. noun. any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

   Synonyms: pitch

6. verb. coat with tar

   "tar the roof"

   "tar the roads"

Synonyms

gob, jack, mariner, seafarer, seaman, pitch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tar:

art, rat, tra

Common word forms

tars, tared, tares, taring, tarred, tarrer, tarring

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for TAR lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.