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5-Letter Words Ending in VE

There are 64 five-letter words ending in VE on Word.ws, from above to wolve. The most common are leave, above, drive, serve and prove.

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

All 64 five-letter words ending in VE

A

  • above10prep. Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
  • agave9n. Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave of succulent plants...
  • alive8adj. Having life; living; not dead.

B

  • blive10adv. Quickly; forthwith.
  • brave10adj. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
  • breve10n. A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used...

C

  • calve10v. To give birth to a calf.
  • carve10v. To cut meat in order to serve it.
  • chive13n. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
  • clave10n. A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
  • cleve10n. A room; chamber.
  • clive10v. To climb; ascend.
  • clove10n. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove...
  • crave10v. To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
  • curve10n. A bend, such as in a road.

D

  • delve9v. To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
  • drive9v. To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • drove9n. The herd being driven in a cattle (or other animal) drive; thus, a...

F

  • fauve11n. Synonym of fauvist.

G

  • glove9n. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but...
  • grave9n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
  • grove9n. A small forest.

H

  • halve11v. To reduce to half the original amount.
  • heave11v. To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy...
  • helve11n. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

K

  • karve12n. A multipurpose intermediate size Viking longship.
  • knave12n. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

L

  • larve8n. A larva.
  • leave8v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from...
  • lurve8n. Love, fondness.

M

  • mauve10n. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c....

N

  • naive8adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
  • nerve8n. A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels...

O

  • ogive9n. The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
  • olive8n. A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the...

P

  • peeve10n. An annoyance or grievance.
  • prove10v. To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to...

R

  • reave8v. To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  • reeve8n. Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

S

  • salve8n. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  • selve8v. To become or cause to become a unique self.
  • serve8v. To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official...
  • shave11v. To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a...
  • shive11n. A slice, especially of bread.
  • shove11v. To push, especially roughly or with force.
  • sieve8n. A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to...
  • skive12v. To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
  • slave8n. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person...
  • slive8n. A slice or sliver; slip, chip.
  • solve8v. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • stave8n. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed...
  • steve8v. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
  • stive8n. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
  • stove8n. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
  • suave8adj. Of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or...

T

  • trave8n. A crossbeam.
  • trove8n. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

V

  • valve11n. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such...
  • varve11n. An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.
  • verve11n. Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such...
  • volve11v. To turn over in the mind; to ponder.

W

  • waive11v. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
  • weave11v. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and...
  • wolve11v. To behave like a wolf.
22 rare five-letter words ending in VE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in VE are there?
Word.ws lists 64 five-letter words ending in VE, plus 22 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in VE?
leave, above, drive, serve, prove, alive, steve and solve.
Which of the five-letter words ending in VE 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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