Rival is valid Scrabble Word

Is rival a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is rival valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for RIVAL in dictionary:

VERB:

to strive to equal or surpass
be or seem to be equal or comparable to
To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
To be in rivalry.
be equal to in quality or ability
be the rival of, be in competition with
(try to) equal

NOUN:

a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity
a person or thing that equals another in quality

person or thing that competes with another
A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.
the contestant you hope to defeat

ADJECTIVE:

Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
in the position of a rival

Words related to RIVAL

corrival13 rivaled11 rivaling12 rivality14 rivalled12 rivalless12 rivalling13 rivals9 rivalship17

How to use RIVAL in a sentence

His admiration for Jeremiah Mason was only equalled by that for Judge Marshall, who was not a rival.
She was fully up to time too, you may be sure, as her rival, Mrs.
It is also known that the strongest American Indians cannot equal the average strength of wrist of Europeans, or rival them in ordinary athletic feats.
Lawrence, who thought he divined his reason, felt an honorable indisposition to accept this advantage at the hands of a man who was, most indisputably, his rival.
It was greatly admired, and considered to rival those of Cachemire.
Zenobia was a powerful rival, and her he determined to humble.
In this last stage the struggle between rival groups turned into a rivalry between individuals.
The rival establishment built a new chimney to their mill, which shut out completely all sunshine or hope of sunshine from our narrow windows.
At the present day the West India Islands rival the South American Continent in providing cocoa from the New World.
For it is an economical law of slavery, that where it exists it must exist without a rival.

Only two or three places on earth can rival the overwhelming interest which the city possesses.
The moral of the whole story was that only through the corporate union of the two countries could trade jealousies and the danger of rival schemes of colonization be avoided.
To the rival churches of that country may be traced nearly all the oppressions suffered by its people, who never can be materially improved till purged of their faith in priests.
She set out to visit the wife of the rival architect, with whom she was intimate.
Conscious of his worth, the ardent youth scornfully declared that he feared no rival, then, seizing half of the treasure, he left the wretch to his own devices.
When these contests take place in baths, it is not a pleasant sight to watch a swimmer struggling on, against odds, in the hope of beating a rival for the coveted prize.
Just how the rival professors had escaped was not known, but, if possible, the coldness between them was more pronounced than ever.
And then, once more, he heard the skates of his rival ringing clear close at his elbow.
But there was no rival candidate for the position, and Mr.
Her emotion was so expressive and painful that it touched the heart even of her rival.
He has the advantage, too, of being but moderately detested in comparison of his rival, and, what he values more, the interest of the mistress.
It is the glory of to-day that the sun himself has come down to be the rival and teacher of artists, to work wonders and perform miracles in art.
Let us hear the counter-truth or the rival falsehood which is the complement or the criticism of our own, and hear it stated with the utmost skill.
The constitution of the primitive Church, too long hotly discussed by the champions of rival sects, has been studied with welcome impartiality by Lightfoot and Hatch.

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