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Yes. The word fayre is a Scrabble US word. The word fayre is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word fayre is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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5-letter words (4 found)

AREFY,FAERY,FAYER,FAYRE,

4-letter words (10 found)

AERY,AYRE,EYRA,FARE,FEAR,FRAE,FRAY,RYFE,YARE,YEAR,

3-letter words (22 found)

ARE,ARF,ARY,AYE,EAR,ERA,ERF,FAE,FAR,FAY,FER,FEY,FRA,FRY,RAY,REF,RYA,RYE,YAE,YAR,YEA,YER,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AR,AY,EA,EF,ER,FA,FE,FY,RE,YA,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 49 words from fayre according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fayre

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Definitions and meaning of fayre

fayre

Etymology 1

From Middle English fayr, feir, fager, from Old English fæġer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɛə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Adjective

fayre (comparative fayrer or more fayre, superlative fayrest or most fayre)

  1. (archaic) Fair, beautiful.
    • 15th century, Thomas Malory, Tale of Sir Tristram; published in Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver, editor, Malory: Works, London: Oxford University Press, 1971, OCLC 432570779, page 259:
      'Nay, I wyll nat so,' seyde sir Trystrames, 'for here is none that woll gyff ryghtuous jugemente. But I doute nat,' seyde sir Trystrames, 'my lady is fayrer than youres, and that woll I make good with my hondys, and who that woll sey the contrary, I woll preve hit on his hede!'

Etymology 2

From Old French foire, from Latin fēriae.

Noun

fayre (plural fayres)

  1. (dated) A fair, a market.
    • 1533–1534, An Acte agaynst Forstallying & Regratying of Fyshe (25 Henry VIII, chapter 4); reprinted in The Statutes of the Realm: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George the Third, in Pursuance of an Address of the House of Commons of Great Britain. From Original Records and Authentic Manuscripts, volume III, [London]: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817, OCLC 758689339, page 440:
      WHERE AS before this tyme dyverse Actis of Parliament have byn made by the Kyngis most noble pgenitours agaynst forstallers and regratours of vytaile and other marchaundisez in markettis and fayres within this Realme of Englonde, […] Be it therfore enactid by auctorite of this psent parliament that noo maner of pson or psones of what estate degree or condicion he or they be, other then suche pson or psones as nowe be or herafter shalbe marchaunt venterers to Iselande, for the seid fysshe, […] shall bye any of the kindes of the seid fysshe at or [apon] the stone or at the seyd easte see syde or easte see costis, to sell the same fysshe agayn or any parte therof at any of the seid fayre or fayres callid Sturbrigge feyre Sancte Ives or Elye fayre; […]
  2. (dated) Fare.
Usage notes

In the senses of "fair" (market) and "fare" (food and drink), fayre is still often used to lend an air of history or tradition, particularly in the United Kingdom; for example, a school's "summer fayre" or a university's "freshers' fayre", and "traditional English fayre [cuisine]".

Anagrams

  • Farey, Freya, arefy, faery

Source: wiktionary.org