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

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

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4-letter words (3 found)

RIVE,VIER,VIRE,

3-letter words (4 found)

IRE,REI,REV,VIE,

2-letter words (2 found)

ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from vire according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vire

vire ivre vrie rvie irve rive vier iver veir evir ievr eivr vrei rvei veri evri revi ervi irev riev ierv eirv reiv eriv

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Definitions and meaning of vire

vire

Etymology

From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaɪə(ɹ)/

Verb

vire (third-person singular simple present vires, present participle viring, simple past and past participle vired)

  1. To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.

Anagrams

  • Iver, Rive, iver, rive, vier

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɪrɛ]

Noun

vire

  1. vocative singular of vir

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋireˣ/, [ˈʋire̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Syllabification(key): vi‧re

Etymology 1

vireä +‎ -e

Noun

vire

  1. form, condition (especially emotionally and/or mentally)
    Olen hyvässä vireessä. ― I'm in great form. / I'm doing great. / I'm on a roll.
  2. shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom)
    Synonym: viriö
  3. (music) tune (the state or condition of being correctly tuned)
    Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä. ― Finally this piano is in tune.
  4. (music) tuning (the overall pitch an instrument is tuned to, relative to a standard frequency)
    Ääninäytteiden vire on 442 Hz. ― The tuning in the sound samples is 442 Hz.
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *virek. Cognate with Estonian vire, Karelian vire and Votic vire.

Noun

vire

  1. A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.
    Synonym: tuulenvire
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Further reading

  • “vire”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-01-01

Anagrams

  • revi, rive, veri

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viʁ/
  • Homophones: virent, vires

Etymology 1

deverbal of virer

Noun

vire f (plural vires)

  1. (Switzerland) a small ledge on the side of a mountain

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vire

  1. inflection of virer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • ivre, rive, rivé

Galician

Verb

vire

  1. inflection of virar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯i.reː/, [ˈu̯ɪreː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.re/, [ˈviːre]

Verb

virē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vireō

Middle English

Noun

vire

  1. an arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow

References

  • “vire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle High German

Alternative forms

  • virre, vīere, vīer, fīre, firre, fīere, fīer

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German fīra, borrowed from Latin fēriae.

Noun

vire f

  1. celebration

Descendants

  • German: Feier
  • Hunsrik: Feier
  • Luxembourgish: Feier

Portuguese

Verb

vire

  1. inflection of virar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiɾe/ [ˈbi.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -iɾe
  • Syllabification: vi‧re

Verb

vire

  1. inflection of virar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *virek.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈvire/, [ˈvʲire]
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: vi‧re

Noun

vire

  1. light breeze
  2. ripple

Inflection

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “vire”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yola

Alternative forms

  • vier

Etymology

From Middle English vir, from Old English fȳr, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viː/
  • Homophone: vier

Noun

vire

  1. fire

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75

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