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BAR

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

BAR is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

BARS-s 1 BARRING-ring 5 BARRED-red 3

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

BARFUL 3 BARRINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
    • The window was protected by steel bars.
  2. countableuncountableA solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
    • Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
    • We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
  3. countableuncountableA cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
    • bar of chocolate
    • bar of soap
  4. countableuncountableA broad shaft, band, or stripe.
    • a bar of light
    • a bar of colour
  5. countableuncountableA long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  6. countableuncountableAny of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
  7. countableuncountableThe sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
  8. countableuncountableA similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
  9. countableuncountableA business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
    • The street was lined with all-night bars.
  10. countableuncountableThe counter of such premises.
    • Step up to the bar and order a drink.
  11. countableuncountableA counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  12. broadlycountableuncountablePremises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
    • a coffee bar
    • a juice bar
  13. countableuncountableAn informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
    • a burger bar
    • a local fish bar
  14. countableuncountableAn establishment offering cosmetic services.
    • a nail bar
    • a brow bar
  15. countableuncountableAn official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
    • The club has lifted its bar on women members.
  16. countableuncountableAnything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
  17. countablederiveduncountableA metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
    • Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.
  18. UKcountableuncountableA dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
  19. UKcountableuncountableThe railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
  20. PhilippinesUScountableuncountableusuallyThe bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
    • He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
  21. countablemetonymicallyuncountableCollectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
    • He was called to the bar.
  22. countableuncountableOne of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
    • I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
  23. countableuncountableA vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  24. countableslanguncountableHip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
    • That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.
  25. broadlycountableslanguncountableSomething well-said or well-written.
  26. countableuncountableA horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
  27. countablefigurativelyuncountableAny level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
    • to set the bar high/low
    • to raise the bar
  28. countableuncountableThe crossbar.
  29. countableuncountableThe central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  30. countableuncountableAn addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
  31. countableuncountableA ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially
  32. countableuncountableA linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
  33. countableuncountableOne of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
  34. countableuncountableA city gate, in some British place names.
    • Temple Bar, London
  35. countableuncountableA drilling or tamping rod.
  36. countableuncountableA vein or dike crossing a lode.
  37. countableuncountableA gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  38. countableuncountableThe part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
  39. countableuncountableThe space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
  40. countableslanguncountableA measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
  41. countableuncountableA small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
  42. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
verb
  1. transitiveTo obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
    • Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
  2. transitiveTo prohibit.
    • I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
  3. transitiveTo lock or bolt with a bar.
    • to bar the door
  4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
preposition
  1. Except, other than, besides.
    • He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
adverb
  1. Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
    • Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.