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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:

Q10U1I1R1E1

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.

Definitions and meaning of quire

quire

English

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

From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Doublet of choir, chorus, and hora.

Noun

quire (plural quires)

  1. (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
    Alternative form: (uncommon) choir
  2. Archaic form of choir (“group of people who sing together”).
    • 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
      Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

Verb

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

  1. (poetic) Alternative form of choir (“to sing in concert”).

Usage notes

  • Although quire and choir originated as two spellings of the same word, they have gradually diverged in meaning in modern English.

See also

  • quire ken

Latin

Verb

quīre

  1. present active infinitive of queō

Source: wiktionary.org