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Is connive a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word connive is a Scrabble US word. The word connive is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is connive a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word connive is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Is connive a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word connive is a Words With Friends word. The word connive is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CONNIVE,

6-letter words (4 found)

CONINE,CONNIE,COVINE,NOVICE,

5-letter words (9 found)

CONIN,CONNE,COVEN,COVIN,ENVOI,NONCE,OVINE,VENIN,VOICE,

4-letter words (22 found)

CINE,CION,CIVE,COIN,CONE,CONI,CONN,COVE,ICON,NEON,NEVI,NICE,NINE,NONE,NONI,ONCE,ONIE,OVEN,VEIN,VICE,VINE,VINO,

3-letter words (13 found)

CON,ECO,EON,EVO,ICE,INN,ION,NIE,NON,ONE,VIE,VIN,VOE,

2-letter words (8 found)

EN,IN,IO,NE,NO,OE,OI,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 58 words from connive according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of connive

connive

Etymology

From French conniver (“to ignore and thus become complicit in wrongdoing”), or directly from its etymon Latin con(n)īvēre (“close or screw up the eyes, blink, wink; overlook, turn a blind eye, connive”) (perhaps alluding to two persons involved in a scheme together winking to each other), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + *nīvēre (related to nictō (“to blink, wink”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to bend, droop”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kəˈnaɪv/
  • Rhymes: -aɪv
  • Hyphenation: con‧nive

Verb

connive (third-person singular simple present connives, present participle conniving, simple past and past participle connived)

  1. (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. [from mid 17th c.]
  2. (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
    Synonyms: (rare) dissimulate, look the other way, shut one's eyes, turn a blind eye, wink
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • connivance
  • connivent
  • nictate

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Latin

Verb

connīvē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of connīveō

Source: wiktionary.org