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lure

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Is lure a Scrabble word?

Yes, lure is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 4 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of lure?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.Examples: "How many have with a smile made small account Of Beauty and her lures"alsofiguratively

2. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.

3. (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.Examples: "My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure."

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.Examples: "It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries."; "Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!"Synonyms: enticetransitive

2. (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.transitive

3. (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.transitive

noun (English)

1. (music) Alternative form of lur.alt-ofalternative

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "lure"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "lure"?

Scrabble
4 points
L1
U1
R1
E1
Words With Friends
6 points
L2
U2
R1
E1

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