HIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. HIVE 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 HIVE?
| 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 HIVE 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 HIVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HIVE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does HIVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A structure in which bees live.
Hive as a verb means to store away, and hiving off part of a business keeps that older sense intact. The medical hives, meaning a rash, is a separate word of unknown origin.
How HIVE is used
Countable. Also a verb: hived, hives.
- A hive holds sixty thousand bees at the height of summer.
- The word hive as a verb means to store away.
- They hived off the whole department in a year.
- The rash called hives is an unrelated word.
- Two hives in one garden is more than most neighbours accept.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HIVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HIVE
10 longer words begin with HIVE.
Words ending in HIVE
6 words end in HIVE. Useful as a back hook: play HIVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with HIVE inside
Showing 24 of 32 words that contain HIVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HIVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HIVE
Common questions about HIVE
- Is HIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HIVE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HIVE worth?
- HIVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HIVE mean?
- A structure in which bees live.
- What letters can be added to HIVE?
- HIVE takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HIVE:
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