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Is ire a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ire is a Scrabble US word. The word ire is worth 3 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (2 found)

IRE,REI,

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ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of ire

ire

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /aɪɹ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron.

Noun

ire (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Iron.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to fall upon, act sharply”) (compare Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “supernatural, holy”), οἶστρος (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), Sanskrit इष् f (iṣ, “refreshment, strength”)). Compare also Middle English irre, erre (“anger, wrath”), from Old English yrre, ierre, eorre (“anger, wrath”).

Noun

ire (uncountable)

  2. Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
    Synonyms: fury, rage, wrath
    to raise the ire of someone
Related terms
Translations

Verb

ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)

  1. (transitive, rare) To anger, to irritate.
    • 1915, Dr. Duncan Eve of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in the Southern Medical Journal, volume 4, page 279:
      I heard enough from the gentleman who has just taken his seat, and from my friend, Dr. Caldwell, to ire me just a little bit.
Derived terms
Translations

References

  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “ire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • rie, RIE, -ier, Eri, eir, Rie, EIR, rei, Eri.

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *ire-, compare Mongolian ирэх (irex), Daur irgw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈrə/

Verb

ire

  1. to come

Derived terms

  • iregva (“to make come”)
  • iredan (“manner of coming”)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin īra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iʁ/
  • Rhymes: -iʁ

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

  1. (archaic, literary or poetic) ire, anger
    Synonym: colère

Further reading

  • “ire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • rie

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: ì‧re

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ire f

  1. plural of ira

Etymology 2

Verb

ìre (no first-person singular present, no past historic, past participle (regional) ìto, no imperfect, no future, no subjunctive, no imperfect subjunctive, no imperative, auxiliary èssere)

  1. (obsolete, regional, literary) alternative form of gire (“go”) [auxiliary essere]
    Synonym: andare
Conjugation

Including lesser-used forms:

Anagrams

  • eri, rei, rie, riè

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈiː.rɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.re]

Verb

īre

  1. present active infinitive of eō

References

  • “ire”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

ire

  1. alternative form of hire (“her”)

Pronoun

ire

  1. alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

ire

  1. alternative form of hire (“her”)

Etymology 3

Noun

ire

  1. alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Etymology 4

Determiner

ire

  1. alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 5

From Old French ire (“ire”) or Latin īra (“wrath, rage”). See English ire for more.

Noun

ire (uncountable)

  1. anger, wrath

References

  • “īre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ire < Latin īra.

Noun

ire f (plural ires)

  1. ire; rage; fury

Descendants

  • French: ire

Neapolitan

Verb

ire

  1. alternative form of jire (“to go”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irer, definite plural irene)

  1. person from Ireland, Irishman.
    Synonyms: irlender, irlending

Related terms

  • Republikken Irland, Irland
  • irsk

References

  • “ire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ire m (definite singular iren, indefinite plural irar, definite plural irane)

  1. person from Ireland, Irishman.
    Synonyms: irlendar, irlending

Related terms

  • Republikken Irland, Irland
  • irsk

References

  • “ire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Latin īra.

Noun

ire oblique singular, f (oblique plural ires, nominative singular ire, nominative plural ires)

  1. ire, anger, rage

Descendants

  • → English: ire
  • French: ire (now rare)

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ire)
  • ire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

  • ira, iro, iru

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

ire

  1. alternative form of ira

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

ire

  1. inflection of irar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔiˈɾe/ [ʔɪˈɾɛ]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: i‧re

Pronoun

iré (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. alternative form of iri: this

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • ure (Ekiti)

Etymology 1

Compare with oore (“blessing”) and rere (“goodness”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.ɾē/

Noun

ire

  1. good fortune, good luck
    Synonyms: aásìkí, àlùbáríkà
  2. goodness, kindness
    Synonym: rere
    Antonym: ìkà
    ire l'ó pé, ìkà kò pé ― Only goodness brings a positive result, wickedness does not
  3. A prefix used in unisex given names (ex. Irégbèmí)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.ɾē/

Noun

ire

  1. the tree Funtumia elastica

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.ɾē/

Noun

ìre

  1. blessings
    Synonyms: àlùbáríkà, báríkà, oore, ìbùkún

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.ɾé/

Noun

ìré

  1. tail feather
    bákùkọ́ bá ń kọ, jìnnìjìnnnì níí mú ìré ìdí i rẹ̀ ― when a rooster crows, a state of vibration will overwhelm its tail feathers
Related terms
  • ìyẹ́ (“feather”)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.ɾè/

Noun

irè

  1. farm produce, harvest
    Synonym: irè oko
Derived terms
  • ìkórè (“harvest”)

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.ɾé/

Noun

iré

  1. play, sport
    Synonyms: eré, aré
    wọ́n ń ṣiré erùpẹ̀ ― They were playing with dirt
Derived terms
  • ohun àfiṣiré (“play toy”)
  • ṣiré (“to play”)

Source: wiktionary.org