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Is dere a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dere is a Scrabble US word. The word dere is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is dere a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dere is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

D2E1R1E1

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4-letter words (6 found)

DEER,DERE,DREE,ERED,REDE,REED,

3-letter words (4 found)

DEE,ERE,RED,REE,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EE,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from dere according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dere

dere edre dree rdee erde rede deer eder deer eder eedr eedr dree rdee dere edre rede erde ered reed eerd eerd reed ered

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dere. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dere.

Definitions and meaning of dere

dere

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: dear, deer

Noun

dere (plural deres)

  1. (UK dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.
    She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: dear, deer

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

  1. (transitive, UK, archaic, dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.
Derived terms
  • dering

Etymology 3

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Alternative forms

  • der

Pronunciation

  • (AAVE, NYC) IPA(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
  • (Ulster English) IPA(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
  • (Midlands) IPA(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
  • (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA(key): /d̪iəɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: dare (some accents)

Adverb

dere (not comparable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Noun

dere (uncountable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Anagrams

  • Eder, Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛrɛ]

Verb

dere

  1. third-person singular present of drát

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːrə

Verb

dere

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of deren

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • deere, deore

Etymology

From Old English dīere, from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdeːr(ə)/

Adjective

dere

  1. dear

Descendants

  • English: dear
  • Scots: dere, deir
  • Yola: dear

References

  • “dẹ̄re, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Norwegian dialectal dere, a variant of der, from Middle Norwegian *þiðr. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ- from the verb ending in second person plural. Replaced older I (nominative) and eder (accusative).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdeːɾə/
  • Rhymes: -eːrə

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

  1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)
    Synonyms: I, eder

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian *þiðr, whence also der. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ-, similar to þit from hafið it.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²deːɾə/, /ˈdeːɾə/

Pronoun

dere

  1. (dialectal, South East Norway) objective case of de; alternative form of dykk (“you (plural)”)

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dere (Cyrillic spelling дере)

  1. third-person singular present of derati

Slovene

Verb

dere

  1. third-person singular present of dreti

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دره (darre).

Noun

dere

  1. creek (A stream of water smaller than a river.)
  2. glen, basin, ravine A long area of relatively low elevation, often having a stream bed at the bottom, surrounded by mountains or hills, usually smaller than a "vadi" — "valley".)

Declension

References

  • “dere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • tyrd (North Wales)
  • tyred (North Wales, literary)

Pronunciation

  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

Verb

dere

  1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

From Persian دره (darre).

Noun

dere

  1. valley

Source: wiktionary.org