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OLIVE

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What OLIVE Means

  1. noun: small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
  2. noun: evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits
  3. adjective: of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OLIVE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 L1 I1 V4 E1.

Anagrams of OLIVE (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In OLIVE

25 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 (10)

3 letter words (9)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing OLIVE

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

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