ROVE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ROVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROVE?
| 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: 58 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROVE is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 8 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ROVE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ROVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,404.
What does ROVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To wander or move about without a fixed course or destination.
Rove often describes animals, travelers, or the eye shifting freely from place to place with no set plan. The word carries a sense of restless, exploratory motion across a wide area.
How ROVE is used
Often literary, describing eyes, minds, or travelers moving freely.
- Wild goats rove freely across the rocky hillside.
- Her eyes rove across the room whenever she feels nervous.
- The old sailor loved to rove from port to port.
- Packs of wolves roved through the forest at night.
- He roves the countryside for months before settling down.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ROVE
The 4 tiles of ROVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ROVE
5 longer words begin with ROVE.
Words ending in ROVE
Showing 24 of 27 words that end in ROVE. Useful as a back hook: play ROVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ROVE inside
Showing 24 of 171 words that contain ROVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ROVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ROVE
Common questions about ROVE
- Is ROVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROVE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROVE worth?
- ROVE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROVE mean?
- To wander or move about without a fixed course or destination.
- What letters can be added to ROVE?
- ROVE takes 8 hooks: 4 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ROVE:
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