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Is quire a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quire is a Scrabble US word. The word quire is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is quire a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quire is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

Q10U1I1R1E1

Is quire a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word quire is a Words With Friends word. The word quire is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

QUIRE,

4-letter words (1 found)

IURE,

3-letter words (4 found)

IRE,REI,RUE,URE,

2-letter words (4 found)

ER,QI,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from quire according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of quire

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

Definitions and meaning of quire

quire

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: choir

Etymology 1

From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.

Noun

quire (plural quires)

  1. One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
  2. (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
  3. A book, poem, or pamphlet.
Coordinate terms
  • (quantity of paper): bale, bundle, ream
Translations

Verb

quire (third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)

  1. (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

See also

  • Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See choir.

Alternative forms

  • choir

Noun

quire (plural quires)

  1. (archaic) A choir.
    • 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
      Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]
  2. One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.

Verb

quire (third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To sing in concert.

See also

  • quire ken

Latin

Verb

quīre

  1. present active infinitive of queō

Source: wiktionary.org