HAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HAVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAVE?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAVE is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAVE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does HAVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To possess or to hold something.
Have is the second commonest verb in English and does two jobs at once: it owns things, and it builds the perfect tense. Very few languages use one verb for both of those.
How HAVE is used
Irregular in the present and the past.
- They have nothing to declare and a great deal to hide.
- The word have owns things and builds a tense.
- The haves and the have-nots is a nineteenth-century phrase.
- Few languages use one verb the way English uses have.
- To have and to hold is a formula and not a definition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HAVE
21 longer words begin with HAVE.
Words ending in HAVE
8 words end in HAVE. Useful as a back hook: play HAVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with HAVE inside
Showing 24 of 30 words that contain HAVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HAVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HAVE
Common questions about HAVE
- Is HAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAVE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAVE worth?
- HAVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAVE mean?
- To possess or to hold something.
- What letters can be added to HAVE?
- HAVE takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HAVE:
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