STAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. STAVE 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 STAVE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STAVE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STAVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STAVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does STAVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
One of the long, narrow strips of wood joined side by side to form the curved wall of a barrel or cask.
A stave gives a wooden barrel or cask its rounded shape; coopers fit many staves together and bind them with metal hoops to make the container watertight. The same word also names each of the five horizontal lines used to write music, usually called a staff in American English, and it appears in the everyday phrase stave off, meaning to hold something back for a while. Despite the shared spelling, the barrel stave is the sense most often needed for this word.
How STAVE is used
General vocabulary; met in cooperage and in the phrase stave off, less often in everyday conversation.
- Each stave was shaped and planed before the barrel was assembled.
- A cracked stave let wine seep out of the old cask.
- The cooper replaced two staves near the base of the barrel.
- Iron hoops held the staves tightly together.
- He counted forty staves around the wide oak barrel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STAVE
The 5 tiles of STAVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with STAVE
4 longer words begin with STAVE.
Words ending in STAVE
1 words end in STAVE. Useful as a back hook: play STAVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with STAVE inside
9 words contain STAVE in the middle. Words that start with STAVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in STAVE
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Common questions about STAVE
- Is STAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STAVE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STAVE worth?
- STAVE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STAVE mean?
- One of the long, narrow strips of wood joined side by side to form the curved wall of a barrel or cask.
- What letters can be added to STAVE?
- STAVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STAVE:
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