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Is twire a Scrabble word?

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

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Is twire a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1W4I1R1E1

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5-letter words (3 found)

TWIER,TWIRE,WRITE,

4-letter words (10 found)

RITE,TIER,TIRE,TREW,TRIE,WEIR,WERT,WIRE,WITE,WRIT,

3-letter words (10 found)

EWT,IRE,REI,RET,REW,RIT,TEW,TIE,WET,WIT,

2-letter words (8 found)

ER,ET,EW,IT,RE,TE,TI,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from twire according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of twire

twire

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/

Etymology 1

From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.

Alternative forms

  • tweer

Verb

twire (third-person singular simple present twires, present participle twiring, simple past and past participle twired)

  1. (intransitive) To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
  2. (intransitive) To twinkle; sparkle; wink.

Noun

twire (plural twires)

  1. A sly glance; a leer.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *twir, *twirn, twern, from Old English *twirn, *tweorn (“twine, thread”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo- (“two”). Doublet of twine.

Noun

twire (plural twires)

  1. A twisted filament; a thread.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Perhaps from a dialectal form of *twere, from Middle English *tweren, from Old English þweran (“to stir”) (found in compound āþweran (“to agitate, stir”)), from Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *twer- (“to turn, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Bavarian zweren (“to stir”). Compare twirk, twirl.

Verb

twire (third-person singular simple present twires, present participle twiring, simple past and past participle twired)

  1. (transitive) To twist; twirl.

Etymology 4

Variant of tuyere.

Noun

twire (plural twires)

  1. (obsolete) A pipe through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge; a tuyere.

Anagrams

  • twier, write

Source: wiktionary.org