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

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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 dree according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dree

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

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Definitions and meaning of dree

dree

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɹiː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɹi/
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /ðreː/, /driː/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /dri/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.

Verb

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreeing, simple past and past participle dreed) (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)

  1. (transitive) To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tolerate
  2. (intransitive) To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
Derived terms
  • adree
  • dree one's weird

Etymology 2

Probably partly:

  • derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and
  • borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:
    • shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective), from ġe- (prefix forming adjectives of association or similarity) + Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (“enduring, lasting”) (from *dreuganą (“to serve, be a retainer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to serve one’s tribe; loyal”)); and
    • influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).

Doublet of dreich.

Noun

dree (plural drees)

  1. (chiefly Northumbria, Scotland, archaic) Grief; suffering; trouble.

Etymology 3

From dreich (adjective).

Adverb

dree (comparative more dree, superlative most dree)

  1. (Northeast Midlands, Northern England)
    1. Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
    2. Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
  2. (Lancashire, Scotland) Slowly, tediously.

Etymology 4

See dreich.

Adjective

dree (comparative dreer, superlative dreest)

  1. Alternative form of dreich
Derived terms
  • dreely

References

Anagrams

  • -dere, Eder, Rede, Reed, de re, deer, dere, rede, reed

Low German

Alternative forms

  • drei
  • dre

Etymology

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

Numeral

dree

  1. three

Coordinate terms

Related terms

  • (ordinal numeral) darde (East Frisian), drüdde, drüdd', drütt, drütte (in Dithmarschen)

Luxembourgish

Verb

dree

  1. second-person singular imperative of dreeën

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

Numeral

dree

  1. three

Scots

Etymology

From Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /driː/

Verb

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreein, simple past dreed, past participle dreed)

  1. to endure, suffer, put up with, undergo

Derived terms

  • dree one’s weird

Yola

Numeral

dree

  1. Alternative form of dhree

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33

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