FAUVE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FAUVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FAUVE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FAUVE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FAUVE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fauvesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FAUVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FAUVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does FAUVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A painter belonging to the early twentieth-century Fauvism movement, marked by bold, unmixed colour.
The name began as an insult: a critic looking at a room of paintings at an early Paris exhibition called the artists fauves, wild beasts, because of the violence of their colour, and the label stuck as the name of the school itself. A fauve painted with colour used for its own emotional force rather than to copy what the eye actually saw, so a face could be green and a tree could be orange. The movement lasted only a few years before its members went in separate directions, but the word survives in English as the ordinary term for both the painter and the style.
How FAUVE is used
Capitalised when naming the movement itself, Fauvism; lower case as a common noun for a painter of that school.
- The gallery grouped every fauve from that one Paris show in a single room.
- He painted like a fauve for two years and then stopped entirely.
- A fauve cared more for the force of a colour than for its accuracy.
- The best known fauve of the group later moved on to quite different work.
- The critics who named the fauves did not mean it as praise.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FAUVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FAUVE
3 longer words begin with FAUVE.
Shorter words from the letters in FAUVE
Common questions about FAUVE
- Is FAUVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FAUVE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FAUVE worth?
- FAUVE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FAUVE mean?
- A painter belonging to the early twentieth-century Fauvism movement, marked by bold, unmixed colour.
- What letters can be added to FAUVE?
- FAUVE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FAUVE:
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