BIRSE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BIRSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BIRSE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIRSE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIRSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BIRSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BIRSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about BIRSE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BIRSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
A bristle, especially of a pig or other animal, and figuratively a person's temper, as in the phrase to get one's birse up meaning to become angry.
Originally birse simply named the stiff bristle hair of an animal such as a pig, the kind once used by shoemakers and brushmakers, but Scots speech extended the word figuratively to a person's temper standing on end like an animal's bristles when provoked. The phrase get one's birse up remains the word's most familiar modern use, describing someone becoming irritated or defensive rather than describing literal animal hair. Outside Scots and northern English dialect, birse is rarely met except in dialect glossaries or older regional writing.
How BIRSE is used
A Scots dialect word, chiefly familiar today through the phrase get one's birse up, meaning to become angry.
- His birse was well and truly up after the remark.
- The old cobbler kept a bundle of stiff birse for his brushes.
- Don't get your birse up over such a small mistake.
- She felt her birse rising as the argument dragged on.
- Grandfather still used birse in its old sense, meaning bristle.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIRSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BIRSE
The 5 tiles of BIRSE in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with BIRSE
2 longer words begin with BIRSE.
Shorter words from the letters in BIRSE
Common questions about BIRSE
- Is BIRSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIRSE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIRSE worth?
- BIRSE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIRSE mean?
- A bristle, especially of a pig or other animal, and figuratively a person's temper, as in the phrase to get one's birse up meaning to become angry.
- What letters can be added to BIRSE?
- BIRSE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BIRSE:
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