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Is waive a Scrabble word?

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

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Is waive a Scrabble UK word?

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

W4A1I1V4E1

Is waive a Words With Friends word?

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

WAIVE,

4-letter words (4 found)

VIAE,VIEW,WAVE,WIVE,

3-letter words (8 found)

AVE,AWE,VAE,VAW,VIA,VIE,WAE,WAI,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AI,AW,EA,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 20 words from waive according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of waive

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Definitions and meaning of waive

waive

Alternative forms

  • wave (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wāv, IPA(key): /weɪv/
  • Rhymes: -eɪv
  • Homophone: wave

Etymology 1

From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

  1. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
    1. (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
  2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
    • a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
      […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
  3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
Derived terms
  • waivable
  • waiver
Related terms
  • waiver
  • waif
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

  1. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

waive (plural waives)

  1. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  2. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
Translations

Anagrams

  • aview

Source: wiktionary.org