TRAVE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TRAVE 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 TRAVE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRAVE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRAVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRAVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TRAVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about TRAVE
- 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 TRAVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaictechnical
A crossbeam, or the space or bay formed between crossbeams in a building; also, historically, a wooden frame used to hold a restive horse or ox still while it was shod.
Builders once used trave for any horizontal beam spanning between walls or supports, a sense that survives today mainly in older architectural writing about timber-framed structures. Farriers relied on a separate device known by the same name, a sturdy wooden trave that confined an unruly horse or ox so its legs could be handled safely during shoeing, protecting both the animal and the blacksmith from injury. Older texts sometimes describe a building divided into traves, meaning the bays or sections marked out by its structural crossbeams, a usage now largely confined to historical and architectural scholarship. Both senses of trave have faded from everyday speech, so a modern reader most often meets the word in dictionaries, historical fiction or specialist writing on old buildings and farriery.
How TRAVE is used
Archaic and technical, encountered mainly in older architectural writing and in historical accounts of farriery and horse-shoeing.
- The old barn still showed the marks of its original trave.
- The blacksmith led the frightened colt into the trave.
- Each trave of the hall was decorated with carved woodwork.
- Historians described the trave used to restrain oxen for shoeing.
- The surveyor counted six traves along the length of the roof.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRAVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TRAVE
The 5 tiles of TRAVE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TRAVE
Showing 24 of 37 words that begin with TRAVE.
Words ending in TRAVE
2 words end in TRAVE. Useful as a back hook: play TRAVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TRAVE inside
Showing 24 of 38 words that contain TRAVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TRAVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TRAVE
Common questions about TRAVE
- Is TRAVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TRAVE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TRAVE worth?
- TRAVE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRAVE mean?
- A crossbeam, or the space or bay formed between crossbeams in a building; also, historically, a wooden frame used to hold a restive horse or ox still while it was shod.
- What letters can be added to TRAVE?
- TRAVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TRAVE:
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