quire

Plural: quires

Noun

a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
A book, poem, or pamphlet.
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
Archaic form of choir (“group of people who sing together”).

Verb

Verb Forms: quired, quiring, quires

To arrange sheets of paper into sets of 24.
To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
Alternative form of choir (“to sing in concert”).

Examples

He tried to QUIRE his Scrabble tiles into a perfect bingo, but the letters just wouldn’t cooperate.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.

Scrabble Score: 14

quire: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
quire: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
quire: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

quire: valid Words With Friends Word