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JIVE

4 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What JIVE Means

  1. noun: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
  2. verb: dance to jive music; dance the jive

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JIVE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 I1 V4 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In JIVE

1 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.

3 letter words (1)

Longer Words Containing JIVE

JIVE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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