What DIRE Means
- adjective: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless“a desperate illness”
- adjective: causing fear or dread or terror“the awful war”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DIRE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 I1 R1 E1.
Anagrams of DIRE (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DIRE
13 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing DIRE
DIRE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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