1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Yore in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does yore mean? Is yore a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is yore worth? yore how many points in Words With Friends? What does yore mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for yore

See how to calculate how many points for yore.

Is yore a Scrabble word?

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

Y4O1R1E1

Is yore a Scrabble UK word?

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

Y4O1R1E1

Is yore a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word yore is a Words With Friends word. The word yore is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Y3O1R1E1

Our tools

Valid words made from Yore

Jump to...

Results

4-letter words (2 found)

OYER,YORE,

3-letter words (6 found)

ORE,OYE,REO,ROE,RYE,YER,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,OE,OR,OY,RE,YE,YO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from yore according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of yore

yore oyre yroe ryoe orye roye yoer oyer yeor eyor oeyr eoyr yreo ryeo yero eyro reyo eryo orey roey oery eory reoy eroy

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

Definitions and meaning of yore

yore

Etymology

From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ȝore, ȝare, ȝeare, from Old English ġeāra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *jērǫ̂, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). More at year.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yô, IPA(key): /jɔː/
  • (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA(key): /jɔɹ/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: yōr, IPA(key): /jo(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /joə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophones: your, you're (accents with the pour–poor merger); yaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

yore (uncountable)

  1. (poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

  • foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

  • long since, of old; see also Thesaurus:long ago

Anagrams

  • Roye, oyer, yero

Middle English

Adverb

yore

  1. yore (in a time long ago)
  2. (with past participle) for a long time
    • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Dictionary of English Verse, 1900):

References

  • “yōre, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org