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Is ure a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ure is a Scrabble US word. The word ure is worth 3 points in Scrabble:

U1R1E1

Is ure a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ure is a Scrabble UK word and has 3 points:

U1R1E1

Is ure a Words With Friends word?

The word ure is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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You can make 6 words from 'ure' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


3 letters words from 'ure'

RUE 3URE 3

2 letters words from 'ure'

ER 2RE 2
UR 2 

All 3 letters words made out of ure

ure rue uer eur reu eru

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word ure. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in ure.

Definitions and meaning of ure

ure

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman *eure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre and opera.

Noun

ure (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) use, practise, exercise.
    • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 2,[1]
      I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre
    • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248,[2]
      But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre
      That lies in vs;
    • 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 [3]
      ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure

Derived terms

  • inure

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,[4]
      […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

Anagrams

  • ERU, EUR, Eur., Rue, eur-, eur., rue

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈy.rə/

Noun

ure

  1. plural of uur

Ambai

Alternative forms

  • uren
  • ureŋ

Noun

ure

  1. eye

Danish

Noun

ure n

  1. indefinite plural of ur

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ure

  1. fire

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Interlingue

Noun

ure

  1. (chemistry) urea

Japanese

Romanization

ure

  1. Rōmaji transcription of うれ

Latin

Verb

ūre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō

Middle English

Determiner

ure

  1. Alternative form of oure

References

  • “our(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ūser – Northumbrian or poetic

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuː.re/

Determiner

ūre

  1. our

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: oure
    • English: our
      • Northumbrian: wor, oor
    • Scots: oor, wir

Pronoun

ūre

  1. genitive of wē: ours, of us

Rapa Nui

Noun

ure

  1. penis

Usage notes

Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.


Source: wiktionary.org
  • in heraldry, pointed, with a pattern of points.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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