Definitions For Spare
noun
- A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- An extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- An extra component of a machine or other apparatus
verb
- Use frugally or carefully
- Give up what is not strictly needed
- Refrain from harming
- Save or relieve from an experience or action
- To choose not to punish or harm (someone)
- To not destroy or harm (something)
- To prevent (someone or something) from experiencing or being affected by something unpleasant, harmful, etc.
- Something extra that is kept to be used if it is needed ; especially
- The achievement of knocking down all 10 pins with the first two balls
adjective
- Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- Lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Thin and fit
- More than is needed, desired, or required
- Kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- Not taken up by scheduled activities
Is Spares a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
9
The word Spare is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Spare in a Sentence
- No one knows why the gunman shot some people and spared others.
- Somehow the storm spared our house while nearby buildings were destroyed.
- She was spared from having to answer any more questions.
- A spare pair of gloves
- I keep a spare set of keys in my desk.
- He has a spare frame.
- “I've lost the key.” “You'll find a spare in the drawer.”
- If that one breaks, I've got a spare.
- Most cars come with spares.