LAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. LAVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LAVE?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LAVE is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LAVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LAVE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in LAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about LAVE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does LAVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To wash or bathe something, especially in literary or old-fashioned writing.
Lave is an archaic verb once common in poetry, describing water moving gently over a shore or skin. Poets used lave to give an ordinary action a softer, more musical sound.
How LAVE is used
Found almost only in older poetry and deliberately old-fashioned prose.
- Waves gently lave the rocks along the quiet shore.
- The stream seemed to lave every stone it passed.
- Morning mist would lave the fields before sunrise.
- Soft rain laved the dusty streets overnight.
- The poem describes water that laves the feet of a weary traveler.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LAVE
The 4 tiles of LAVE in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with LAVE
20 longer words begin with LAVE.
Words ending in LAVE
12 words end in LAVE. Useful as a back hook: play LAVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with LAVE inside
Showing 24 of 70 words that contain LAVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LAVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LAVE
Common questions about LAVE
- Is LAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LAVE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LAVE worth?
- LAVE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LAVE mean?
- To wash or bathe something, especially in literary or old-fashioned writing.
- What letters can be added to LAVE?
- LAVE takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of LAVE:
Open LAVE in the Word Finder