What DRIVE Means
- verb: operate or control a vehicle“drive a car or bus”
- verb: travel or be transported in a vehicle“We drove to the university every morning”
- noun: the act of applying force to propel something“after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off”
- noun: a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine“a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DRIVE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 R1 I1 V4 E1.
Anagrams of DRIVE (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DRIVE
29 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (11)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing DRIVE
DRIVE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.