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Is spire a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word spire is a Scrabble US word. The word spire is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is spire a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word spire is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (9 found)

EPRIS,PERIS,PIERS,PRIES,PRISE,RIPES,SPEIR,SPIER,SPIRE,

4-letter words (16 found)

IRES,PERI,PIER,PIES,PIRS,PISE,REIS,REPS,RIPE,RIPS,RISE,RISP,SEIR,SIPE,SIRE,SPIE,

3-letter words (18 found)

ERS,IRE,PER,PES,PIE,PIR,PIS,PRE,PSI,REI,REP,RES,RIP,SEI,SER,SIP,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,ES,IS,PE,PI,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 51 words from spire according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of spire

spire psire sipre ispre pisre ipsre sprie psrie srpie rspie prsie rpsie sirpe isrpe sripe rsipe irspe rispe pirse iprse prise rpise irpse ripse spier psier siper isper piser ipser speir pseir sepir espir pesir epsir siepr isepr seipr esipr iespr eispr piesr ipesr peisr episr iepsr eipsr sprei psrei srpei rspei prsei rpsei speri pseri sepri espri pesri epsri srepi rsepi serpi esrpi respi erspi presi rpesi persi eprsi repsi erpsi sirep isrep sriep rsiep irsep risep sierp iserp seirp esirp iesrp eisrp sreip rseip serip esrip resip ersip iresp riesp iersp eirsp reisp erisp pires ipres pries rpies irpes ripes piers ipers peirs epirs ieprs eiprs preis rpeis peris epris repis erpis ireps rieps ierps eirps reips erips

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Definitions and meaning of spire

spire

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: spīr, spīʹər, IPA(key): /spaɪə/, /ˈspaɪ.ə/
  • (General American) enPR: spīʹər, IPA(key): /ˈspaɪ.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.

Noun

spire (plural spires)

  1. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant. [from 10th c.]
  2. A young shoot of a plant; a spear. [from 14th c.]
  3. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
  4. A sharp or tapering point. [from 16th c.]
  5. (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]
    The spire of the church rose high above the town.
  6. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [from 17th c.]
  7. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Derived terms
  • broached spire
Translations

Verb

spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)

  1. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. [from 14th c.]
  2. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. [from 14th c.]
  3. (transitive) To furnish with a spire.

Etymology 2

From Old French spirer, and its source, Latin spīrō (“to breathe”).

Verb

spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe. [14th–16th c.]

Etymology 3

From Middle French spire.

Noun

spire (plural spires)

  1. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. [from 16th c.]
  2. A spiral. [from 17th c.]
  3. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

Anagrams

  • Peris, Piers, Pires, Speir, Spier, peris, piers, pries, prise, resip, ripes, spier

French

Etymology

From Latin spira, from Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spiʁ/

Noun

spire f (plural spires)

  1. turn (of a spiral)
  2. turn (of an electromagnetic coil)

Further reading

  • “spire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • péris, pires, pries, priés, prise, ripes, ripés

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: spì‧re

Noun

spire f

  1. plural of spira

Anagrams

  • Speri, persi, presi, serpi, speri

Middle English

Noun

spire

  1. Alternative form of spere (“sphere”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse spíra (stem, pipe; little tree).

Noun

spire f or m (definite singular spira or spiren, indefinite plural spirer, definite plural spirene)

  1. sprout

Verb

spire (present tense spirer, past tense spirte, past participle spirt)

  1. to sprout

References

  • “spire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Venetian

Noun

spire

  1. plural of spira

Source: wiktionary.org