HOVEA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. HOVEA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept HOVEA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOVEA is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOVEA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hoveasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOVEA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOVEA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does HOVEA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
An Australian evergreen shrub grown for its clusters of small purple or blue pea-shaped flowers.
A hovea belongs to a group of shrubs native to Australia and is grown mainly for the rich violet and blue tones of its spring flowers, which stand out against glossy dark green leaves. Gardeners in temperate climates plant a hovea in a sheltered border because the shrub tolerates poor, sandy soil far better than richer, wetter ground.
How HOVEA is used
A specialist gardening and botanical term, rarely met outside plant catalogues and native-flora guides.
- The nursery labelled the potted shrub simply as a hovea.
- Along the track a hovea showed its first violet flowers of the season.
- She chose a hovea for the rockery because it needed almost no watering.
- Photographs in the guide compared one hovea against a paler cousin.
- Bees worked steadily over the flowering hovea near the fence.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOVEA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOVEA
1 longer words begin with HOVEA.
Shorter words from the letters in HOVEA
Common questions about HOVEA
- Is HOVEA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HOVEA is not in it.
- How many points is HOVEA worth?
- HOVEA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOVEA mean?
- An Australian evergreen shrub grown for its clusters of small purple or blue pea-shaped flowers.
- What letters can be added to HOVEA?
- HOVEA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOVEA:
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