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Is reave a Scrabble word?

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

R1E1A1V4E1

Is reave a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1E1A1V4E1

Is reave a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word reave is a Words With Friends word. The word reave is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1E1A1V5E1

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5-letter words (2 found)

ARVEE,REAVE,

4-letter words (8 found)

AVER,EAVE,EREV,EVER,RAVE,VARE,VEER,VERA,

3-letter words (12 found)

ARE,AVE,EAR,ERA,ERE,EVE,RAV,REE,REV,VAE,VAR,VEE,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AR,EA,EE,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from reave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of reave

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

Definitions and meaning of reave

reave

Alternative forms

  • reive, rieve (archaic)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv
  • Homophone: reeve

Etymology 1

From Middle English reven, from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn.

Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpere (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.

Verb

reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reaved or reft)

  1. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  2. (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
Derived terms
  • border reiver
Related terms
  • bereave
  • reaver
  • rip
  • rob
Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

Verb

reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reft)

  1. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
Related terms
  • rive
  • unreaved

Middle English

Verb

reave

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of reven

Source: wiktionary.org