REAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. REAVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept REAVE?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful REAVE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for REAVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How REAVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in REAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,562.
What does REAVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To plunder, rob, or forcibly deprive someone of something.
Reave shares its root with bereave, and both words once described the same violent act of taking something away by force. Old and Middle English writers used reave for raiders who reave cattle, goods, or even a person life, and the word carried a harsher, more physical sense than simple stealing. Modern English mostly kept only bereave, leaving reave itself confined to historical fiction, poetry, and dialect.
How REAVE is used
Archaic and literary, common in historical fiction and poetry about raiding or violent loss.
- The raiders would reave cattle from unguarded farms along the border.
- The ballad tells how bandits reave a widow of her last few coins.
- Enemy soldiers were said to reave the village of grain before winter.
- The novel uses reave to give its medieval setting an authentic tone.
- To reave a man of his honor was considered worse than killing him.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of REAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of REAVE
The 5 tiles of REAVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with REAVE
4 longer words begin with REAVE.
Words ending in REAVE
4 words end in REAVE. Useful as a back hook: play REAVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with REAVE inside
16 words contain REAVE in the middle. Words that start with REAVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in REAVE
Common questions about REAVE
- Is REAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts REAVE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is REAVE worth?
- REAVE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does REAVE mean?
- To plunder, rob, or forcibly deprive someone of something.
- What letters can be added to REAVE?
- REAVE takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of REAVE:
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