What JIVES Means
JIVES is a form of JIVE, which means:
- noun: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- verb: dance to jive music; dance the jive
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
JIVES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 I1 V4 E1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In JIVES
9 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 (3)
3 letter words (3)
2 letter words (3)
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