FIRE

4 letters 7 pts

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

  1. bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
  2. destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
  3. start or maintain a fire in; "fire the furnace"
  4. become ignited; "The furnace wouldn't fire"
  5. cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
  6. go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
  7. start firing a weapon
  8. generate an electrical impulse; "the neurons fired fast"
  9. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
  10. drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
  11. provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
  12. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

Noun

  1. 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"
  2. a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
  3. intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
  4. the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
  5. a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
  6. feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
  7. the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
  8. fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking; "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"
  9. 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.