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Is thrave a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word thrave is a Scrabble US word. The word thrave is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is thrave a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word thrave is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Is thrave a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word thrave is a Words With Friends word. The word thrave is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

THRAVE,

5-letter words (9 found)

AVERT,EARTH,HATER,HAVER,HEART,RATHE,TAVER,THRAE,TRAVE,

4-letter words (23 found)

ARET,AVER,EATH,HAET,HARE,HART,HATE,HAVE,HEAR,HEAT,RATE,RATH,RAVE,RHEA,TAHR,TARE,TEAR,TEHR,THAE,THAR,VARE,VERA,VERT,

3-letter words (28 found)

ARE,ART,ATE,AVE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAT,HER,HET,RAH,RAT,RAV,REH,RET,REV,TAE,TAR,TAV,TEA,THE,VAE,VAR,VAT,VET,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AH,AR,AT,EA,EH,ER,ET,HA,HE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 75 words from thrave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of thrave

thrave

Etymology 1

From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-Germanic *þrabōną (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian troawje, droawje (“to trot”), West Frisian drave (“to trot”), Dutch draven (“to lope; trot”), German traben (“to trot”), Swedish trava (“to trot”), Icelandic þrefa (“to wrangle; dispute”).

Verb

thrave (third-person singular simple present thraves, present participle thraving, simple past and past participle thraved)

  1. (transitive, UK, dialectal) To urge; compel; importune.
Related terms
  • thraft

Etymology 2

From Middle English thrave, threve, thrafe, from Old Norse þrefi (“a bunch or handful of sheaves”), related to Old Norse þrifa (“to grasp”). Cognate with Swedish trave, Danish trave.

Alternative forms

  • threave (obsolete), threve (obsolete)

Noun

thrave (plural thraves)

  1. (UK, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
  3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.
    • c. 16th century, Lansdowne MS
      The worst of a thrave.

Anagrams

  • raveth

Source: wiktionary.org