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FIRE
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
F
4
I
1
R
1
E
1
Σ
7
Definitions
Verb
- bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
- destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
- start or maintain a fire in; "fire the furnace"
- become ignited; "The furnace wouldn't fire"
- cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
- start firing a weapon
- generate an electrical impulse; "the neurons fired fast"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
Noun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
- intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
- the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
- a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
- feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking; "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word FIRE
Yes, FIRE is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 7 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
FIRE is a 4-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 2 consonants.