SKIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SKIVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SKIVE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SKIVE is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SKIVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SKIVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SKIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does SKIVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Britishinformal
To avoid work or duty by staying away without a good reason, especially by pretending to be ill.
Skive is chiefly British slang, most familiar in the phrase skive off, used of a student who dodges school or a worker who dodges the office. It implies deliberate avoidance rather than a genuine excuse, so someone who skives is understood to be shirking rather than legitimately absent. The word also has an older, unrelated technical sense in leatherworking, where to skive means to pare a hide down to an even thinness, but the everyday slang meaning is far more common now. Both senses share the idea of taking something away thin or partial, whether that is effort or leather.
How SKIVE is used
Informal British slang, common in speech about avoiding school or work.
- He decided to skive off work and go to the beach instead.
- The teacher noticed that two pupils had started to skive class.
- She felt guilty every time she planned to skive instead of going in.
- They used to skive whenever the manager was away.
- He warned the new starters never to skive on a Friday.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SKIVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SKIVE
The 5 tiles of SKIVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SKIVE
6 longer words begin with SKIVE.
Shorter words from the letters in SKIVE
Common questions about SKIVE
- Is SKIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SKIVE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SKIVE worth?
- SKIVE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SKIVE mean?
- To avoid work or duty by staying away without a good reason, especially by pretending to be ill.
- What letters can be added to SKIVE?
- SKIVE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SKIVE:
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