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Is dove a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dove is a Scrabble US word. The word dove is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is dove a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dove is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

DEVO,DOVE,

3-letter words (5 found)

DEV,DOE,EVO,ODE,VOE,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,DO,ED,OD,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from dove according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dove

dove odve dvoe vdoe ovde vode doev odev deov edov oedv eodv dveo vdeo devo edvo vedo evdo oved voed oevd eovd veod evod

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dove. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dove.

Definitions and meaning of dove

dove

Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).

Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌv/
  • Rhymes: -ʌv

Noun

dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

  1. (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
    Synonym: peace dove
    Antonym: hawk
  3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
  5. (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
Synonyms
  • (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)
Translations

Etymology 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

Alternative forms

  • dived

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /dəʊv/
  • (US) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /doʊv/
  • Rhymes: -əʊv

Verb

dove

  1. (chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past of dive
    • 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
      When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive
Usage notes
  • See dive for dived vs. dove.

References

  • “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

  • devo

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoː.və/
  • Hyphenation: do‧ve

Etymology 1

From doof +‎ -e.

Noun

dove m or f (plural doven)

  1. A deaf person.
Derived terms
  • doventaal
  • doventolk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

dove

  1. inflection of doof:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dove

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of doven

Anagrams

  • voed

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

Noun

dove f (plural dovis)

  1. stave

Italian

Alternative forms

  • dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')

Etymology

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdo.ve/°, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/*
  • Rhymes: -ove
  • Hyphenation: dó‧ve

Conjunction

dove

  1. where
    Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.

Derived terms

  • laddove

Related terms

  • ove

Adverb

dove

  1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts
    Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
    Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

Anagrams

  • devo, vedo

Middle English

Noun

dove

  1. Alternative form of douve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • dovent

Adjective

dove

  1. neuter singular of doven

Source: wiktionary.org