WIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. WIVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIVE?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WIVE is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WIVE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does WIVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To marry a woman.
Wive is archaic and appears in Shakespeare, where it means both to take a wife and to provide somebody else with one. It disappeared from English entirely by 1700.
How WIVE is used
Wived, wiving. Archaic and chiefly literary.
- The word wive means to marry a woman.
- To wive somebody meant to find them a wife.
- Shakespeare uses wive in both senses.
- Nobody has wived anybody since about 1700.
- A man who wived well married sensibly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WIVE
The 4 tiles of WIVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WIVE
8 longer words begin with WIVE.
Words ending in WIVE
3 words end in WIVE. Useful as a back hook: play WIVE onto a word already on the board.
Words with WIVE inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain WIVE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WIVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WIVE
Common questions about WIVE
- Is WIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIVE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIVE worth?
- WIVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIVE mean?
- To marry a woman.
- What letters can be added to WIVE?
- WIVE takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WIVE:
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