BLIVE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. BLIVE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BLIVE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLIVE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLIVE
No single letter turns BLIVE into another word.
How BLIVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BLIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does BLIVE mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaicliterary
Quickly, at once, without delay.
Blive belongs to Middle and early Modern English, where a messenger told to come blive was expected on the spot, not eventually. It dropped out of ordinary speech centuries ago and now turns up only in editions of older poetry or writing that deliberately imitates it.
How BLIVE is used
Archaic; found in older verse and in deliberate imitations of it.
- The old ballad tells him to ride blive and say nothing.
- Come blive, the letter said, before the tide turns.
- The knight armed himself blive at the first alarm.
- A modern writer using blive is usually aiming for an antique tone.
- The translator kept blive rather than flattening it to quickly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLIVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BLIVE
Common questions about BLIVE
- Is BLIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BLIVE is not in it.
- How many points is BLIVE worth?
- BLIVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLIVE mean?
- Quickly, at once, without delay.
- What letters can be added to BLIVE?
- No single letter can be added to BLIVE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BLIVE:
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