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Is hive a Scrabble word?

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

H4I1V4E1

Is hive a Scrabble UK word?

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

H4I1V4E1

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4-letter words (1 found)

HIVE,

3-letter words (2 found)

HIE,VIE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EH,HE,HI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from hive according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hive

hive

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /haɪv/
  • Rhymes: -aɪv

Etymology 1

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).

See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see [1].

Noun

hive (plural hives)

  2. A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
    Synonym: beehive
    Hyponyms: skep, skip
  4. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
  6. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
  7. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • apiary
  • hives

Verb

hive (third-person singular simple present hives, present participle hiving, simple past and past participle hived)

  1. (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
  2. (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
  3. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
  4. (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
    • 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount
      […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities
  5. (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
Derived terms
  • hive off

Etymology 2

Noun

hive (plural hives)

  1. An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.

Danish

Etymology

From English heave. Doublet of hæve.

Verb

hive (present tense hiver, past tense hev, past participle hevet, present participle hivende, imperative hiv)

  1. (transitive) to pull, heave, tow
  2. (transitive) to throw

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • hiva (an infinitive)

Etymology

From English heave, from Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”). Doublet of hevja.

Verb

hive (present tense hiv, past tense heiv, past participle hive, present participle hivande, imperative hiv)

  1. (transitive) to lift, heave, tow
  2. (transitive) to throw

References

  • “hive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Source: wiktionary.org