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5-Letter Words Ending in IVE

There are 13 five-letter words ending in IVE on Word.ws, from alive to waive. The most common are drive, alive, olive, naive and clive.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 13 five-letter words ending in IVE

  • alive8adj. Having life; living; not dead.
  • blive10adv. Quickly; forthwith.
  • chive13n. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
  • clive10v. To climb; ascend.
  • drive9v. To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • naive8adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
  • ogive9n. The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
  • olive8n. A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the...
  • shive11n. A slice, especially of bread.
  • skive12v. To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
  • slive8n. A slice or sliver; slip, chip.
  • stive8n. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
  • waive11v. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
3 rare five-letter words ending in IVE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in IVE are there?
Word.ws lists 13 five-letter words ending in IVE, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in IVE?
drive, alive, olive, naive, clive, waive, chive and shive.
Which of the five-letter words ending in IVE has the highest letter score?
chive scores 13 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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