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WAVE
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
W
4
A
1
V
4
E
1
Σ
10
Definitions
Verb
- set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
- signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
- move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
Noun
- a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"
- a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- something that rises rapidly; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right"
- a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch
- a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures); "a heat wave"
- an undulating curve
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word WAVE
Yes, WAVE is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 10 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
WAVE is a 4-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 2 consonants.