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You can make 14 words from rove according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rove

rove orve rvoe vroe ovre vore roev orev reov erov oerv eorv rveo vreo revo ervo vero evro over voer oevr eovr veor evor

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

Definitions and meaning of rove

rove

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).

Verb

rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
2. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
3. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
4. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
5. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
6. To draw through an eye or aperture.
7. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
8. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Derived terms

• rover
• roved
• roving

Related terms

• reeve

Translations

Noun

rove (plural roves)

1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
3. The act of wandering; a ramble.

Derived terms

• rove beetle

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

rove

1. simple past of rive
2. simple past of reeve

Anagrams

• -vore, Over, Vore, over, over-, vore

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rove

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

Anagrams

• over, Voer, voer

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *robëh (compare Ingrian rove, Karelian roveh, Veps robeh). Probably derived from the onomatopoeic root of ropista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʋeˣ/, [ˈro̞ʋe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -oʋe
• Syllabification^(key): ro‧ve

Noun

rove

1. Small container made of birch bark.

   Synonyms: kosio, ropponen, tuokkonen
2. (by extension) A container of similar size but any material, when used to store mämmi (a traditional fasting dish).

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References

Further reading

• “rove”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• vero

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *robëh. Cognates include Finnish rove and Veps robeh.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈroʋe/, [ˈro̞ʋe̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈroʋe/, [ˈro̞ʋe̞]
• Rhymes: -oʋe
• Hyphenation: ro‧ve

Noun

rove

1. small basket made of birch bark

Declension

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 487