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Spelling: [spahyuh r]

IPA: /spaɪər/

Spire is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in spire (eiprs).

Definitions for spire

noun

1. a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
2. a similar construction forming the upper part of a steeple.
3. a tapering, pointed part of something; a tall, sharp-pointed summit, peak, or the like:
4. the highest point or summit of something:
5. a sprout or shoot of a plant, as an acrospire of grain or a blade or spear of grass.
6. a coil or spiral.
7. one of the series of convolutions of a coil or spiral.
8. Zoology. the upper, convoluted part of a spiral shell, above the aperture.

verb (used without object)

1. to shoot or rise into spirelike form; rise or extend to a height in the manner of a spire.

Origin of spire

before 1000; Middle English; Old English spīr spike, blade; cognate with Middle Dutch spier, Middle Low German spīr shoot, sprout, sprig, Old Norse spīra stalk

Examples for spire

"To church—the church with a spire at the end of the parade," said Lovibond.

Surmounting its Early English tower is a spire of later date.

The church is cruciform, and its spire the landmark for the surrounding country.

The style is Early English, and the spire reaches a height of 227 feet.

Now, spire by spire, fast sped and glided that blazing serpent.

But in seven months, the team took the spire from the drawing board to a real-world test in Albany, New York.

The spire, like most fountains, has the basics -- Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Brisk Iced Tea and SoBe Lifewater.

The spire rests on the same basic principal as the old-school fountains.

And as The New York Times reported in May, Marcus Theatres, a chain of movie theaters, has been testing the spire in Wisconsin.

The New York Times noted that “the largest model of spire looks a lot like a giant iPhone.”