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

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6-letter words (6 found)

CEREUS,CERUSE,CESURE,RECUSE,RESCUE,SECURE,

5-letter words (10 found)

CERES,CREES,CRUES,CRUSE,CURES,CURSE,ECRUS,REUSE,SCREE,SUCRE,

4-letter words (23 found)

CEES,CERE,CREE,CRUE,CRUS,CUES,CURE,CURS,ECRU,ECUS,ERES,RECS,REES,RUCS,RUES,RUSE,SCUR,SEER,SERE,SUER,SURE,URES,USER,

3-letter words (19 found)

CEE,CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,ERE,ERS,REC,REE,RES,RUC,RUE,SEC,SEE,SER,SUE,SUR,URE,USE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,ER,ES,RE,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 65 words from secure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of secure

secure

Alternative forms

  • secuer (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səˈkjʊə(ɹ)/, /səˈkjɔː(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /səˈkjʊɹ/, /səˈkjɝ/, /səˈkjɔɹ/
  • Hyphenation: se‧cure
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Adjective

secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)

  1. Free from attack or danger; protected.
  2. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
  3. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
  4. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
  5. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
  6. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
  7. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
  8. (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
  9. Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.

Antonyms

  • insecure

Hyponyms

Derived terms

  • securance
  • securely

Related terms

  • security

Translations

Verb

secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)

  1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
    to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
  3. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
    to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
  4. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
    to secure an estate
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.

Derived terms

  • secure arms
  • securement

Translations

Further reading

  • “secure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “secure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Creuse, Rescue, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seˈku.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: se‧cù‧re

Adjective

secure

  1. feminine plural of securo

Anagrams

  • uscere

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈkuː.re/, [s̠ɛˈkuːrɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈku.re/, [seˈkuːre]

Noun

secūre

  1. ablative singular of secūris

Etymology 2

securus +‎ -ē

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seːˈkuː.reː/, [s̠eːˈkuːreː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈku.re/, [seˈkuːre]

Adverb

sēcūrē (comparative sēcūrius, superlative sēcūrissimē)

  1. carelessly
  2. fearlessly
  3. quietly

References

  • “secure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “secure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • secure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • săcure — archaic

Etymology

Inherited from Latin secūris, secūrem. Compare Italian scure.

Pronunciation

Noun

secure f (plural securi)

  1. axe, hatchet
  2. battle axe, halberd

Declension

Synonyms

  • topor

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