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Is octave a Scrabble word?

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

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Is octave a Scrabble UK word?

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

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

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6-letter words (2 found)

AVOCET,OCTAVE,

5-letter words (3 found)

COATE,COVET,OVATE,

4-letter words (12 found)

ATOC,CATE,CAVE,COAT,COTE,COVE,OCTA,TACE,TACO,TOEA,VETO,VOTE,

3-letter words (26 found)

ACE,ACT,ATE,AVE,AVO,CAT,COT,EAT,ECO,ETA,EVO,OAT,OCA,OVA,TAE,TAO,TAV,TEA,TEC,TOC,TOE,VAC,VAE,VAT,VET,VOE,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AT,EA,ET,OE,TA,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 52 words from octave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of octave

octave

Etymology

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒktɪv/, /ˈɒkteɪv/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑktɪv/, /ˈɑkteɪv/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɒktɪv, (UK) -ɒkteɪv, (US) -ɑktɪv

Noun

octave (plural octaves)

  1. (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
  2. (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
    The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
  3. (music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
  4. (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
  5. (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
  6. (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
  7. (Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
    • 1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale
      Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days.
  8. A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
  9. (mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
  10. (signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
  11. (astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.

Abbreviations

  • (interval): P8

Derived terms

Related terms

  • octavo
  • oct-
  • octave key

Translations

See also

  • interval
  • unison
  • second
  • third
  • fourth
  • fifth
  • sixth
  • seventh
  • Octave (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

octave (third-person singular simple present octaves, present participle octaving, simple past and past participle octaved)

  1. Alternative form of octavate

Adjective

octave (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.

Anagrams

  • avocet, vocate

French

Pronunciation

Noun

octave f (plural octaves)

  1. octave

Descendants

  • → Turkish: oktav

Further reading

  • “octave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /okˈta.ve/

Adjective

octave

  1. eighth

Latin

Numeral

octāve

  1. vocative masculine singular of octāvus

Source: wiktionary.org