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Is gyre a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gyre is a Scrabble US word. The word gyre is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is gyre a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gyre is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

G2Y4R1E1

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4-letter words (2 found)

GREY,GYRE,

3-letter words (6 found)

ERG,GER,GEY,REG,RYE,YER,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from gyre according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gyre

gyre ygre grye rgye yrge ryge gyer yger geyr egyr yegr eygr grey rgey gery egry regy ergy yreg ryeg yerg eyrg reyg eryg

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Definitions and meaning of gyre

gyre

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d͡ʒaɪ.ə/
  • (General American) enPR: jīər IPA(key): /d͡ʒaɪ.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: gy‧re

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.

Noun

gyre (plural gyres)

  1. (chiefly literary, poetic)
    1. A swirling vortex.
    2. A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
      Synonyms: circuit, whirl
  2. (anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
  3. (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
Derived terms
  • gyral
  • gyrally
  • gyreful (obsolete, rare)
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Etymology 2

From Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”) (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Verb

gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred) (literary, poetic)

  1. (intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
    Synonyms: revolve, rotate
  2. (transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
Derived terms
  • gyring (adjective, noun)
  • gyringly
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References

Further reading

  • ocean gyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

  • gyre-carlin (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • -ergy, Grey, grey

Latin

Noun

gȳre

  1. vocative singular of gȳrus

Source: wiktionary.org