Words Starting With HAR
100 wordsHAR words carry the weight of Old English and Germanic roots, connecting modern speakers to concepts of listening, hurting, and making music. From the simple command HARK to the complex HARMONIZATION, this pattern reveals how English builds elaborate vocabulary from ancient foundations.
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3Pattern Guide
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HAR words blend high-scoring consonants with versatile endings, making them strategic assets across word games.
Vocabulary & Language
Linguistic patterns and usage statistics
The HAR pattern frequently connects to two distinct semantic clusters. One group relates to harm and harshness—words describing damage, difficulty, or severity. The other centers on harmony and its derivatives, showing how a single pattern can branch into opposite emotional territories. Many HAR words also carry imperative force, like HARK and HARKEN, preserving archaic command forms that survive mainly in literature.
Total Words
189
0.1% of dictionary
Avg Length
8.7 letters
2.8 syllables
Top Scrabble
HARMONIZABLE
28 points
Longest Word
HARDHEARTEDNESS
15 letters
Parts of Speech
With 63% nouns and 25% adjectives, HAR words lean heavily toward describing things and their qualities rather than actions. The average length of 8.7 letters suggests this pattern favors extended forms built through suffixes like -NESS, -LY, and -IZATION.
Middle English dominates this pattern, with many words tracing back through Old English to Proto-West Germanic roots. HARBOR traveled from 'herberwe' through 'herebeorg' to the Germanic 'harjabergu,' originally meaning an army shelter. HARRY followed a similar path, showing how Germanic military vocabulary embedded itself deeply in English during its formative centuries.
Word Games
High-value words for board games
Short (2-4)
Medium (5-7)
belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
in a harsh and grating manner
causing or capable of causing harm
Long (8+)
capable of being made harmonious or consistent
singing in harmony
Short (2-4)
Long (8+)
capable of being made harmonious or consistent
singing in harmony
HARIJAN scores 17 points in Scrabble but jumps to 19 in Words With Friends thanks to the J being worth 10 points instead of 8. The long HARMONIZABLE reaches 28 points in Scrabble and climbs to 31 in WWF, where the premium on rare letters compounds across multiple tiles. For consistent scoring, HARMFUL delivers solid mid-range points in both games without requiring premium tile placement. The H itself scores equally in both games, so focus on words containing J or Z for maximum WWF advantage.
Wordle
5-letter words for daily puzzles
Good Starters (E, A, R, S, T)
Common Words (likely answers)
make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
unpleasantly stern
United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
HARSH makes an excellent starter, testing H, A, R, and S—four of the most common letters in five-letter words—plus revealing whether H appears at all. HAREM adds vowel diversity with both A and E while keeping the useful R in play.
Length Extremes
Longest and shortest valid words
Longest
HAR words tend toward longer forms because the pattern readily accepts suffixes. HARM becomes HARMFUL becomes HARMFULNESS, each extension adding meaning and letters. This suffix-friendly nature explains why no two or three-letter HAR words exist.
Hidden Gems
Rare but valid words to surprise opponents
a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
a conservative who is uncompromising
barely satisfying a lower standard
"the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"
HARDSCRABBLE describes something barely satisfying a minimum standard—think hardscrabble farms on rocky soil. Beyond its evocative meaning, the word scores well in both games and uses common letters, making it surprisingly playable when you need to clear a difficult rack.
Popular crossword answers
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