SERE is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. SERE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SERE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SERE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 8.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SERE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SERE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in SERE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,476.
What stands out about SERE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 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 SERE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literarypoetic
Dry and withered, especially describing plants or vegetation.
Sere describes grass, leaves or land that has lost all its moisture and turned brown and brittle. Writers reach for sere instead of plain dry or withered when they want an older, more poetic tone, often picturing autumn fields or a parched landscape. Shakespeare used the phrase the sere, the yellow leaf for a life past its prime.
How SERE is used
Literary and poetic; used for withered vegetation rather than in ordinary speech.
- By late summer the meadow grass had turned sere and brittle.
- A sere wind rattled through the dead cornstalks.
- The poem compared old age to a sere and falling leaf.
- Only sere thistles remained standing in the drought-struck field.
- Years without rain left the hillside sere and grey.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SERE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SERE
The 4 tiles of SERE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SERE
Showing 24 of 35 words that begin with SERE.
Words ending in SERE
6 words end in SERE. Useful as a back hook: play SERE onto a word already on the board.
Words with SERE inside
14 words contain SERE in the middle. Words that start with SERE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SERE
Common questions about SERE
- Is SERE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SERE, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SERE worth?
- SERE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SERE mean?
- Dry and withered, especially describing plants or vegetation.
- What letters can be added to SERE?
- SERE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of SERE:
Open SERE in the Word Finder