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Is curve a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word curve is a Scrabble US word. The word curve is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is curve a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word curve is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Is curve a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word curve is a Words With Friends word. The word curve is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

CRUVE,CURVE,

4-letter words (4 found)

CRUE,CURE,ECRU,ERUV,

3-letter words (9 found)

CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,REC,REV,RUC,RUE,URE,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from curve according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of curve

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Definitions and meaning of curve

curve

Etymology

Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /kɜːv/, [ˈkʰɜːv]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kɚv/, [ˈkʰɚv]
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v

Adjective

curve

  1. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Translations

Noun

curve (plural curves)

  1. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
  2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
  3. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
  4. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  5. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
  6. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  7. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
  8. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

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Verb

curve (third-person singular simple present curves, present participle curving, simple past and past participle curved)

  1. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
  2. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
  3. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
  4. (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
  5. (transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

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  • cruve

Chinese

Etymology

From English curve (“grading system”).

Pronunciation

  • (Alternative pronunciation): IPA(key): /kʰœːf⁵⁵/

    • Noun

    curve (Hong Kong Cantonese)

    1. curve (grading system) (Classifier: 條／条 c)
    2. (by extension) standards (something used as a measure for comparison) (Classifier: 條／条 c)

    Derived terms

    • 拉curve

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkʏr.və/
    • Hyphenation: cur‧ve

    Noun

    curve f (plural curven or curves, diminutive curvetje n)

    1. curve: curved line
      Synonym: kromme

    Derived terms

    Galician

    Verb

    curve

    1. inflection of curvar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Italian

    Adjective

    curve

    1. feminine plural of curvo

    Noun

    curve f

    1. plural of curva

    Latin

    Pronunciation

    • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.u̯e/, [ˈkʊru̯ɛ]
    • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.ve/, [ˈkurve]

    Adjective

    curve

    1. vocative masculine singular of curvus

    Portuguese

    Verb

    curve

    1. inflection of curvar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Romanian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈkurve]

    Noun

    curve f

    1. plural of curvă

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkuɾbe/ [ˈkuɾ.β̞e]
    • Rhymes: -uɾbe
    • Syllabification: cur‧ve

    Verb

    curve

    1. inflection of curvar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    Source: wiktionary.org