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Yes. The word lair is a Scrabble US word. The word lair is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word lair is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

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4-letter words (7 found)

ARIL,LAIR,LARI,LIAR,LIRA,RAIL,RIAL,

3-letter words (5 found)

AIL,AIR,LAR,RAI,RIA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AI,AL,AR,LA,LI,

You can make 17 words from lair according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lair

lair

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɛə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /lɛɚ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /leː/
  • (New Zealand, without the cheerchair merger) IPA(key): /leə/
  • (New Zealand, cheerchair merger) IPA(key): /liə/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /leɹ/
  • (Lancashire, fairfur merger) IPA(key): /lɜː(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: layer (one pronunciation), leer (cheerchair merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (couch, bed), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

  1. A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
  2. A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
  3. (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
  4. (British dialectal) A bed or resting place.
  5. (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot. [from c. 1420]
    • 1821, John Galt, Annals of the parish, or, The chronicle of Dalmaling, xlix (page 205 in the 1908 edition):
      [] but few knew the reason, and some thought it was because the deceased were strangers, and had no regular lair. I dressed the two bonny orphans in the best mourning at my own cost []
  6. (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
Synonyms
  • (of an animal): burrow (of some smaller mammals), den (of a lion or tiger), holt (of an otter)
  • (of a criminal): den, hide-out
Derived terms
  • (grave): lair-stone (tombstone)
  • (general): lairless, lairlike
Translations

Verb

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

  1. (British) To rest; to dwell.
  2. (British) To lay down.
  3. (British) To bury.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leir (clay, mud). Compare Icelandic leir (clay).

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

  1. (Scotland) A bog; a mire.

Verb

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

  1. (transitive, Scotland) To mire.
  2. (intransitive, Scotland) To become mired.

Etymology 3

Backformation from lairy.

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

  1. Obsolete form of layer.

References

  • Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary[3], volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 505–506
  • “lair”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

See also

Anagrams

  • aril, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial

Scots

Etymology

From Old English lār (instruction).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlair/
  • Rhymes: -er

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

  1. lore
    • "Ower mony a fair-farrant an rare beuk o precious lair" (second line of "The Raven" translated into Scots).

Source: wiktionary.org