You can make 23 words from dare according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 4 letters words made out of dare
dare adre drae rdae arde rade daer ader dear edar aedr eadr drea rdea dera edra reda erda ared raed aerd eard read erad
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dare. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dare.
Definitions and meaning of dare
dare
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɛə(ɹ)/
(General American) IPA(key): /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishdurren, from Old Englishdurran, from Proto-West Germanic*durʀan, from Proto-Germanic*durzaną(“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European*dʰedʰórse(“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers-(“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer-(“to hold, support”).
Verb
dare (third-person singular simple presentdareordaresor(archaic)dast, present participledaring, simple past and past participledaredor(archaic)durst)
(intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
(transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
(transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
Will you dare death to reach your goal?
(transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
(transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
Usage notes
Dare is a semimodal verb. When used as an auxiliary, the speaker can choose whether to use do-support and the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go", "I dare not go", "I didn't dare (to) go", and "I dared not go" are all correct. Similarly "Dare you go?", "Do you dare (to) go?", "Dared you go?", and "Did you dare (to) go?" are all correct. When not an auxiliary verb, it is different: "I dared him to do it." usually is not written as "I dared him do it.", and "Did you dare him to do it?" is almost never written as "Dared you him do it?"
In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go."
Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". According to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, "daren’t" is used occasionally in ordinary past time contexts (Kim daren’t tell them so I had to do it myself).
Rare regional forms dassn't and dasn't also exist in the present tense, and archaic forms dursn't and durstn't in the past tense.
The expression dare say, used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt daresay.
Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the first half of the 19th century it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.
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See also
Appendix:English modal verbs
Noun
dare (pluraldares)
A challenge to prove courage.
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
Defiance; challenge.
(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
Derived terms
dairous
dareful
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old Englishdarian.
Verb
dare (third-person singular simple presentdares, present participledaring, simple past and past participledared)
(obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. [16thc.]
(obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16thc.]