WOLVE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. WOLVE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WOLVE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOLVE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOLVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WOLVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WOLVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does WOLVE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicrare
To hunt or prowl for wolves.
To wolve was to go out after wolves, in the way a man might fowl for birds or fish for trout, and the verb is built directly on the animal's name by the same pattern. It belongs to old hunting vocabulary and has dropped out of use along with the practice it named in most of Britain.
How WOLVE is used
Found chiefly in older glossaries and historical hunting writing, not in current speech.
- Men used to wolve through the northern forests each winter.
- The old record says the villagers would wolve when livestock went missing.
- To wolve required patience, since the animals rarely showed themselves by day.
- He claimed his grandfather still knew how to wolve in the hills.
- Few now wolve, since the animal itself has vanished from the region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOLVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WOLVE
The 5 tiles of WOLVE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WOLVE
8 longer words begin with WOLVE.
Words with WOLVE inside
6 words contain WOLVE in the middle. Words that start with WOLVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WOLVE
Common questions about WOLVE
- Is WOLVE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WOLVE is not in it.
- How many points is WOLVE worth?
- WOLVE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOLVE mean?
- To hunt or prowl for wolves.
- What letters can be added to WOLVE?
- WOLVE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WOLVE:
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