EVE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. EVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EVE?
| 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: 63 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EVE is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 8 hooks, and its letters make up 8.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EVE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in EVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,225.
What stands out about EVE
- EVE is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does EVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The day or evening before an event.
Eve is clipped from even, the old word for the end of the day, and the clipping happened before 1200. It survives in Christmas Eve and in the phrase on the eve of something, where the sense has stretched from a single night to any short period leading up to a thing.
How EVE is used
Countable: the eve of something.
- On the eve of the vote nobody would say how it would go.
- Christmas Eve is busier than the day itself.
- The word eve is clipped from an older word for evening.
- They arrived on the eve and left the morning after.
- An eve can be a night or a whole week depending on the phrase.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of EVE
The 3 tiles of EVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with EVE
Showing 24 of 111 words that begin with EVE.
Words ending in EVE
Showing 24 of 62 words that end in EVE. Useful as a back hook: play EVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with EVE inside
Showing 24 of 858 words that contain EVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with EVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in EVE
Common questions about EVE
- Is EVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EVE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EVE worth?
- EVE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EVE mean?
- The day or evening before an event.
- What letters can be added to EVE?
- EVE takes 8 hooks: 4 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of EVE:
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