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Is ava a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ava is a Scrabble US word. The word ava is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

A1V4A1

Is ava a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ava is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

A1V4A1

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Yes. The word ava is a Words With Friends word. The word ava is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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You can make 2 words from 'ava' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'ava'

AVA 6 

2 letters words from 'ava'

AA 2 

All 3 letters words made out of ava

ava vaa aav aav vaa ava

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Definitions and meaning of ava

ava

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɑː.və/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

ava (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of kava
    • 1859, James Finlay Weir Johnston, The Chemistry of Common Life
      In the Tonga Islands , the ava root , when dry , is split up into small pieces with an axe or other sharp instrument
    • 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp
      […] the schooners plying up the coast for wood and ava and bananas.

Anagrams

  • AAV

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from avama (“to open”).

Noun

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

  1. hole, opening

Inflection

Derived terms

  • avamäng

Related terms

  • avatud
  • avaus
  • avar

Verb

ava

  1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ˈʋa/

Noun

ava

  1. man, human
  2. person
  3. people

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ava.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

  1. female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

Latin

Etymology

Cf. avia. From the feminine of avus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.u̯a/, [ˈäu̯ä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.va/, [ˈäːvä]

Noun

ava f (genitive avae); first declension

  1. grandmother
  2. old wives' tale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Friulian: ave
  • Sardinian: aba
  • Italian: ava

References

  • ava in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Interjection

ava

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of ah, vá

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) aua
  • (Puter) ova

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

Noun

ava f

  1. (Surmiran) water

Derived terms

  • ava da bever
  • ava minerala
  • ava dalla spegna

Samoan

Noun

ava

  1. passage through a coral reef for boats

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əˈvɑː], [əˈvɔː], [əˈvaː]

Adverb

ava (not comparable)

  1. at all
  2. without stopping
  3. of all

Derived terms

  • no ava

Spanish

Noun

ava m or f (plural ava)

  1. Ava (denomination of Guaraní)

Swedish

Etymology

Short for avannonsera

Verb

ava (present avar, preterite avade, supine avat, imperative ava)

  1. (radio, slang) to announce a song or radio program at its end

Conjugation

Antonyms

  • påa

Tolai

Alternative forms

  • avat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

ava

  1. Second-person plural pronoun: you (many)

Declension


Turkish

Noun

ava

  1. dative singular of av

Venetian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

  1. bee

Source: wiktionary.org
  • an aromatic plant of the pepper family; a narcotic drink prepared from its root and stem.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)