SWIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SWIVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SWIVE?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SWIVE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SWIVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SWIVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SWIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about SWIVE
- 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 SWIVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To have sexual intercourse with someone; an archaic and coarse verb, now used only in historical or literary contexts.
Swive was ordinary if blunt English in the medieval period, and Chaucer used it plainly in the Canterbury Tales, where several characters swive one another in the bawdier stories. The verb dropped out of standard use by the early modern period and survives now only when writers or scholars deliberately reach for a period-accurate word. Because swive sounds coarse rather than clinical, it appears in discussions of medieval literature far more often than in any modern setting. Students who read Chaucer in the original Middle English generally meet swive as a footnoted word requiring explanation.
How SWIVE is used
Archaic and coarse; encountered today mainly in the study of medieval English literature rather than in ordinary writing or speech.
- In the tale, the miller's wife is said to swive the young clerk.
- Editors of Chaucer often add a footnote explaining what swive meant.
- The professor pointed out that swive was blunt, ordinary speech in its own time.
- A student unfamiliar with Middle English may not recognise swive at first reading.
- The word swive appears several times across the bawdier of the Canterbury Tales.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SWIVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SWIVE
The 5 tiles of SWIVE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SWIVE
12 longer words begin with SWIVE.
Words with SWIVE inside
1 words contain SWIVE in the middle. Words that start with SWIVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SWIVE
Common questions about SWIVE
- Is SWIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SWIVE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SWIVE worth?
- SWIVE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SWIVE mean?
- To have sexual intercourse with someone; an archaic and coarse verb, now used only in historical or literary contexts.
- What letters can be added to SWIVE?
- SWIVE takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SWIVE:
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