JIVER is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. JIVER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JIVER?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JIVER is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JIVER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
jiversChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JIVER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JIVER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does JIVER mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A person who dances the jive, a lively swing dance performed to fast popular music.
A jiver is simply someone skilled at or fond of dancing the jive, the energetic partner dance that grew out of swing and rock and roll music. Dance halls in the mid-twentieth century were full of enthusiastic jivers keeping pace with fast big-band and early rock tunes. The word can also describe someone associated more loosely with jazz slang and talk, since jive itself once meant a particular style of speech as well as dance. In modern use, jiver remains most closely tied to the dance sense rather than the older slang meaning.
How JIVER is used
Used informally when describing dancers, especially in the context of swing and rock and roll dance halls.
- The best jiver on the floor spun his partner twice.
- Young jivers packed the club every Saturday night.
- She became a confident jiver within a few lessons.
- The competition judged every jiver on speed and style.
- Old photographs show jivers dancing to a live band.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JIVER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JIVER
1 longer words begin with JIVER.
Shorter words from the letters in JIVER
Common questions about JIVER
- Is JIVER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JIVER, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JIVER worth?
- JIVER is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JIVER mean?
- A person who dances the jive, a lively swing dance performed to fast popular music.
- What letters can be added to JIVER?
- JIVER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JIVER:
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