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Is wharve a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wharve is a Scrabble US word. The word wharve is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

W4H4A1R1V4E1

Is wharve a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wharve is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

W4H4A1R1V4E1

Is wharve a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word wharve is a Words With Friends word. The word wharve is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4H3A1R1V5E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

WHARVE,

5-letter words (4 found)

HAVER,WAVER,WHARE,WHEAR,

4-letter words (13 found)

AREW,AVER,HARE,HAVE,HEAR,RAVE,RHEA,VARE,VERA,WARE,WAVE,WEAR,WHAE,

3-letter words (21 found)

ARE,AVE,AWE,EAR,ERA,HAE,HAW,HER,HEW,RAH,RAV,RAW,REH,REV,REW,VAE,VAR,VAW,WAE,WAR,WHA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AH,AR,AW,EA,EH,ER,EW,HA,HE,RE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of wharve

wharve

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /woɹv/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔːv/
  • (without the wine–whine merger, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ʍɔː(ɹ)v/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)v

Etymology 1

From Middle English wharven (“to turn”), from Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”). Cognate with Dutch werven (“to recruit”), Icelandic hverfa (“to turn”), Faroese hvørva (“to disappear”), German werben (“to recruit, advertise”).

Verb

wharve (third-person singular simple present wharves, present participle wharving, simple past wharved or whorf, past participle wharved or whorven)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
    • “Junda” Klingrahool (1898)ː
      It wharves the wair and stirs the sand.

References

  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

From Middle English wherve, from Old English hweorfa, related to the verb.

Noun

wharve (plural wharves)

  1. The whorl of a spindle.
    • 1538, Elyot, Spondilus:
      a wherue, whyche is a rounde thyne of stone, or wodde, or leadde, put on a spyndell to make it runne rounde.
    • 1688, Holme, Armoury III, xxi, page 266:
      The Warve or small Pullas.

Anagrams

  • Hawver

Source: wiktionary.org