CHAVE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHAVE 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CHAVE?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHAVE is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHAVE
No single letter turns CHAVE into another word.
How CHAVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does CHAVE mean in Scrabble?
other
dialectarchaic
A dialectal contraction meaning I have.
Chave squeezes the pronoun I and the verb have into a single word, a pattern once common in some regional English dialects before standard spelling fixed I have as two separate words. It works in the same way as other pronoun-verb contractions found in English dialect speech.
How CHAVE is used
Found in older dialect writing rather than standard modern English.
- Chave no time for such nonsense today, the old farmer grumbled.
- Chave never seen a finer harvest, said the miller proudly.
- The letter reads, chave written twice already and heard nothing back.
- Chave a mind to walk to town before the rain starts.
- The old rhyme begins, chave a tale to tell you all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHAVE
4 longer words begin with CHAVE.
Shorter words from the letters in CHAVE
Common questions about CHAVE
- Is CHAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CHAVE is not in it.
- How many points is CHAVE worth?
- CHAVE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHAVE mean?
- A dialectal contraction meaning I have.
- What letters can be added to CHAVE?
- No single letter can be added to CHAVE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHAVE:
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