PAV is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. PAV 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 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PAV?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAV is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAV
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAV scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PAV, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does PAV mean in Scrabble?
noun
Australian
A pavlova: a meringue cake topped with cream and fruit.
Pav is Australian and New Zealand shorthand and it belongs to summer, which is why it appears at Christmas there. The two countries have argued about who invented it for the better part of a century. The crust has to be crisp and the middle soft, and a pav that fails does so on exactly that point.
How PAV is used
Countable: a pav, two pavs. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
- She brought a pav the size of a dustbin lid.
- A pav goes soft if it waits more than an hour.
- Christmas without a pav is not Christmas at all down there.
- He makes one pav a year and talks about it for twelve months.
- The pav collapsed in the car and tasted the same.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAV and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PAV
Showing 24 of 49 words that begin with PAV.
Words with PAV inside
Showing 24 of 28 words that contain PAV somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PAV are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PAV
Common questions about PAV
- Is PAV valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PAV is not in it.
- How many points is PAV worth?
- PAV is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAV mean?
- A pavlova: a meringue cake topped with cream and fruit.
- What letters can be added to PAV?
- PAV takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PAV:
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