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Is repine a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word repine is a Scrabble US word. The word repine is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

R1E1P3I1N1E1

Is repine a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word repine is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

R1E1P3I1N1E1

Is repine a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word repine is a Words With Friends word. The word repine is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1E1P4I1N2E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

REPINE,

5-letter words (5 found)

NEPER,PENIE,PREEN,REPIN,RIPEN,

4-letter words (19 found)

EINE,ERNE,NEEP,PEEN,PEER,PEIN,PENE,PENI,PERE,PERI,PERN,PIER,PINE,PIRN,PREE,REEN,REIN,RINE,RIPE,

3-letter words (22 found)

EEN,ENE,ERE,ERN,IRE,NEE,NEP,NIE,NIP,PEE,PEN,PER,PIE,PIN,PIR,PRE,REE,REI,REN,REP,RIN,RIP,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,EN,ER,IN,NE,PE,PI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from repine according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of repine

repine

Etymology

Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- +‎ pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from pīnen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English pīnian), which may be related.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĭpīnʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpaɪn/
  • (General American) enPR: rĭpīnʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpaɪn/, /ɹə-/
  • Rhymes: -aɪn
  • Hyphenation: re‧pine

Verb

repine (third-person singular simple present repines, present participle repining, simple past and past participle repined)

  1. (intransitive, now literary) To complain; to regret; to fret. [from early 16th c.]
  2. (intransitive, with for, now literary) To long for (something) discontentedly. [from 17th c.]

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Alternative forms

  • (obsolete, 16th century) repyne

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Noun

repine (plural repines)

  1. (obsolete, now rare) A repining.

References

  • “repine, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2009.
  • “repine, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2009.

Further reading

  • “repine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†reˈpine, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “repine, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • Priene, perine

Source: wiktionary.org