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Is pyre a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pyre is a Scrabble US word. The word pyre is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

P3Y4R1E1

Is pyre a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pyre is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

P3Y4R1E1

Is pyre a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word pyre is a Words With Friends word. The word pyre is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

PREY,PYRE,RYPE,

3-letter words (8 found)

PER,PRE,PRY,PYE,REP,RYE,YEP,YER,

2-letter words (4 found)

ER,PE,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from pyre according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pyre

pyre ypre prye rpye yrpe rype pyer yper peyr epyr yepr eypr prey rpey pery epry repy erpy yrep ryep yerp eyrp reyp eryp

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pyre. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pyre.

Definitions and meaning of pyre

pyre

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Doublet of fire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaɪɚ/
  • Hyphenation: pyre
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Noun

pyre (plural pyres)

  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
    • For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

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Further reading

  • pyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • prey, rype

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpyreˣ/, [ˈpyre̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -yre
  • Syllabification(key): py‧re

Noun

pyre

  1. Alternative form of pyree

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Further reading

  • “pyre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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