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Is belive a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word belive is a Scrabble US word. The word belive is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is belive a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word belive is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

BELIVE,

5-letter words (4 found)

BELIE,BEVEL,BLIVE,LIEVE,

4-letter words (10 found)

BILE,BLEE,EVIL,LEVE,LIVE,VEIL,VELE,VIBE,VILE,VLEI,

3-letter words (11 found)

BEE,BEL,EEL,EVE,LEE,LEI,LEV,LIB,LIE,VEE,VIE,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,BI,EE,EL,LI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from belive according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of belive

belive

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: bĭlīv', IPA(key): /bɪˈlaɪv/
  • (US) enPR: bĭlīv', IPA(key): /bəˈlaɪv/
  • Rhymes: -aɪv

Etymology 1

From Middle English beliven, from Old English belīfan (“to remain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bilīban, from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).

Cognate with West Frisian bliuwe (“to stay”), Dutch blijven (“to remain”), German bleiben (“to remain”), Danish blive (“to be, remain”). More at leave.

Alternative forms

  • bilive, blive
  • bleve, bileve, bilave, blewe

Verb

belive (third-person singular simple present belives, present participle beliving, simple past belove, past participle beliven)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete outside dialects) To remain, stay.
    • 1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321:
      [...] God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, [...]"
    • 1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:
      So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
Related terms
  • belave (2)
  • beleave
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bilive (“actively, vigorously, eagerly, gladly, quickly, at once”), with syncopated alternative form blive. The adverb is from a contraction of by／bi +‎ live (dative form of lyf, "life"), litteraly, "by life".

Adverb

belive (comparative more belive, superlative most belive)

  1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
  2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon
Alternative forms
  • blive

Anagrams

  • b'lieve, beveil, bevile

Source: wiktionary.org