FIVER is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FIVER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FIVER?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIVER is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIVER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fiversChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FIVER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FIVER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does FIVER mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
A five-pound note; a five-dollar note.
A fiver is a physical note, not an amount: you can find one in a coat pocket, and that is most of the word's charm. It sits in a family with tenner and, more distantly, with pony and monkey — the older slang for twenty-five and five hundred pounds that a fiver has long outlived.
How FIVER is used
Countable: a fiver, three fivers. Used for the note itself; for the sum, ordinary speech says five pounds.
- He found a fiver in the pocket of last winter's coat.
- The whole round came to less than a fiver in those days.
- She left a fiver under the plate and slipped out.
- A fiver says the train is late again.
- The machine refused the fiver four times.
- He owes me a fiver and has owed it since March.
- They split the last fiver and walked home.
- Two fivers and a handful of coins was the whole takings.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIVER and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FIVER
1 longer words begin with FIVER.
Shorter words from the letters in FIVER
Common questions about FIVER
- Is FIVER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIVER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIVER worth?
- FIVER is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIVER mean?
- A five-pound note; a five-dollar note.
- What letters can be added to FIVER?
- FIVER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FIVER:
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