VIRE

Definition: VIRE

VIRE

Noun

1. An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Vire \Vire\, noun. [Old French expression vire, from virer to turn. Compare to Veer, Vireton.]. (references)

"VIRE" is a common misspelling or typo for: veer, vice, vide, vie, vile, vine, vireo, vise.

Crosswords: VIRE

Etymologies containing "VIRE": Vireton. (references)

Non-English Usage: "VIRE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Finnish (cocked, tune tuned), Haitian Creole (turn), Portuguese (turn), Portuguese Brazilian (turn), Spanish (turn).

Domain	Title
Books	Par Mont Parnasse et Vaux de Vire; recueil de poèmes (reference) Vire : mille ans d'histoire (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Survey party entering Vire, France, shortly after D-Day 17th FAOB Photo from 17th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"VIRE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "VIRE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "VIRE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Vire	Last name	300	23,312
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "VIRE": virelai, virelais, virelay, virelays, viremia, viremias, viremic, vireo, vireos, vires, virescence, virescences, virescent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words ending with "ire": Gire, ire. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: rive, vier.
	Words within the letters "e-i-r-v"
	-1 letter: ire, rei, rev, vie.
	-2 letters: er, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-r-v"
	+1 letter: aiver, diver, drive, ervil, fiver, giver, jiver, liver, livre, reive, rived, riven, river, rives, rivet, siver, viers, viler, viper, vireo, vires, wiver.
	+2 letters: aivers, arrive, cervid, cervix, derive, devoir, divers, divert, drivel, driven, driver, drives, envier, ervils, eviler, fervid, fivers, givers, grieve, grivet, invert, jivers, jivier, levier, liever, livers, livery, livier, livres, livyer, naiver, privet, quiver, ravine, regive, reived, reiver, reives, relive, renvoi, review, revile, revise, revive, riever, rivage, rivers, rivets, scrive, shiver, shrive, silver, sivers, skiver, sliver, stiver, strive, thrive, trivet, vainer, varied, varier, varies, veiler, veiner, venire, verbid, verdin, verier, verify, verily, verism, verist, verite, verity, vermin, vermis, vernix, viewer, vinery, vinier, vipers, vireos, virile, virtue, vivers, vizier, voicer, voider, waiver, wavier, wivern, wivers.
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