REIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. REIVE 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 REIVE?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful REIVE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for REIVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How REIVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in REIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,562.
What stands out about REIVE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 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 REIVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotshistorical
To raid and plunder, especially to steal cattle or goods by force, as practiced historically along the Scottish and English border.
Reive comes from the same root as reave and describes the raiding culture of the Anglo-Scottish border region, where families known as Border Reivers would reive livestock from rival clans for centuries. These raids shaped border law and gave the wider language the word blackmail, itself born from the tribute once demanded to avoid being reived. Historians still use reive to capture the specific, organized nature of these cross-border cattle raids rather than random theft.
How REIVE is used
A Scots and historical term, used mainly in writing about border raiding and Anglo-Scottish history.
- Border families would reive cattle from their neighbors under cover of darkness.
- The clan gathered to reive livestock as revenge for an earlier raid.
- Historians describe how entire communities organized to reive across the border.
- The old ballad celebrates a rider famous for daring to reive far from home.
- Local law eventually cracked down on those who continued to reive.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of REIVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of REIVE
The 5 tiles of REIVE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with REIVE
4 longer words begin with REIVE.
Shorter words from the letters in REIVE
Common questions about REIVE
- Is REIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts REIVE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is REIVE worth?
- REIVE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does REIVE mean?
- To raid and plunder, especially to steal cattle or goods by force, as practiced historically along the Scottish and English border.
- What letters can be added to REIVE?
- REIVE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of REIVE:
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