Unscramble SIRE and you have 18 words, SIRE itself among them: it scores 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. SIRE has 4 anagrams here, IRES, REIS, RISE and SEIR, scoring 4 like SIRE itself. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Words from SIRE by length: 5 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of SIRE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with SI · ending in RE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to SIRE:
What SIRE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SIRE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIRE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 18) | 17 | 18 | 17 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEIR.
Each word below uses all the letters of SIRE and one more.