IRE is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. IRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept IRE?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IRE is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 12 hooks, and its letters make up 9.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IRE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How IRE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in IRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 250.
What does IRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
Anger, especially when strongly felt.
Ire is chiefly literary and survives in journalism, where drawing somebody's ire is a headline formula. It came through French from Latin and gives irate, which is far commoner in speech than the noun ever is.
How IRE is used
Uncountable. Literary and journalistic.
- The decision drew the ire of everybody it affected.
- The word ire gives English irate.
- Headlines use ire because it is three letters long.
- Nobody says ire aloud and everybody reads it.
- The ire of a committee is a slow thing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of IRE
The 3 tiles of IRE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with IRE
17 longer words begin with IRE.
Words ending in IRE
Showing 24 of 185 words that end in IRE. Useful as a back hook: play IRE onto a word already on the board.
Words with IRE inside
Showing 24 of 852 words that contain IRE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with IRE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in IRE
Common questions about IRE
- Is IRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts IRE, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is IRE worth?
- IRE is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IRE mean?
- Anger, especially when strongly felt.
- What letters can be added to IRE?
- IRE takes 12 hooks: 10 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of IRE:
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