CLAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CLAVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CLAVE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLAVE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLAVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLAVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about CLAVE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CLAVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
One of a pair of solid wooden sticks that are struck together to produce a sharp, resonant sound in Latin American music.
A clave is played by holding one stick loosely cupped in one hand, which acts as a small resonating chamber, and striking it with the other stick to produce a clear, penetrating click that cuts through a full band. Pairs of claves anchor the rhythmic pattern known by the same name, clave, that underlies son, rumba, and salsa, so the instrument and the pattern it plays share one word. The word entered English from Cuban Spanish, where it originally meant key or keystone, a fitting image for a beat that everything else in the arrangement locks onto. In an older, unrelated sense, clave is also the archaic past tense of the verb to cleave, meaning stuck fast.
How CLAVE is used
Chiefly a term in Afro-Cuban and Latin American music, referring both to the wooden instrument and to the rhythmic pattern it plays.
- The percussionist tapped a steady clave through the whole song.
- She held the clave loosely so it would ring instead of going dead.
- The band built the arrangement around a simple clave rhythm.
- He handed his son a clave and showed him the basic pattern.
- A single clave stick lay forgotten on the drum riser.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CLAVE
The 5 tiles of CLAVE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CLAVE
9 longer words begin with CLAVE.
Words ending in CLAVE
6 words end in CLAVE. Useful as a back hook: play CLAVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CLAVE inside
10 words contain CLAVE in the middle. Words that start with CLAVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CLAVE
Common questions about CLAVE
- Is CLAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLAVE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLAVE worth?
- CLAVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLAVE mean?
- One of a pair of solid wooden sticks that are struck together to produce a sharp, resonant sound in Latin American music.
- What letters can be added to CLAVE?
- CLAVE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLAVE:
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