5-letter words ending with VE
Dive into the specific realm of 5-letter words that conclude with the letter VE. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with VE, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| leave | 8 | leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking | leave it as is |
| alive | 8 | capable of erupting | the volcano is very much alive |
| drive | 9 | hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | he sliced his drive out of bounds |
| above | 10 | (in writing) at an earlier place | see above |
| prove | 10 | provide evidence for | - |
| serve | 8 | mate with | male animals serve the females for breeding purposes |
| brave | 10 | possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring |
| solve | 8 | find the solution | solve an equation |
| grave | 9 | of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | grave responsibilities |
| drove | 9 | a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | - |
| slave | 8 | work very hard, like a slave | - |
| nerve | 8 | any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body | - |
| shave | 11 | cut closely | - |
| naive | 8 | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | a teenager's naive ignorance of life |
| shove | 11 | come into rough contact with while moving | - |
| glove | 9 | the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | - |
| olive | 8 | evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits | - |
| stove | 8 | a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | dinner was already on the stove |
| curve | 10 | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | - |
| grove | 9 | garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | - |
| valve | 11 | a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it | - |
| weave | 11 | interlace by or as if by weaving | - |
| carve | 10 | engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | carve one's name into the bark |
| heave | 11 | the act of lifting something with great effort | - |
| crave | 10 | have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | - |
| waive | 11 | do without or cease to hold or adhere to | - |
| suave | 8 | having a sophisticated charm | - |
| knave | 12 | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | - |
| salve | 8 | semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | - |
| sieve | 8 | a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | - |
| trove | 8 | treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) | - |
| mauve | 10 | a moderate purple | - |
| reeve | 8 | fasten by passing through a hole or around something | - |
| delve | 9 | turn up, loosen, or remove earth | - |
| clove | 10 | one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb | - |
| stave | 8 | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | - |
| halve | 11 | divide by two; divide into halves | - |
| cleve | 10 | - | - |
| verve | 11 | an energetic style | - |
| skive | 12 | remove the surface of | skive leather |
| soave | 8 | dry white Italian wine from Verona | - |
| trave | 8 | a horizontal beam that extends across something | - |
| peeve | 10 | an annoyed or irritated mood | - |
| breve | 10 | a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
| agave | 9 | tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber | - |
| reave | 8 | steal goods; take as spoils | - |
| nieve | 8 | - | - |
| emove | 10 | - | - |
| fauve | 11 | a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | - |
| greve | 9 | - | - |
| helve | 11 | the handle of a weapon or tool | - |
| hoove | 11 | - | - |
| knive | 12 | - | - |
| keeve | 12 | - | - |
| kieve | 12 | - | - |
| kerve | 12 | - | - |
| lieve | 8 | - | - |
| loave | 8 | - | - |
| lurve | 8 | - | - |
| mieve | 10 | - | - |
| naeve | 8 | - | - |
| neive | 8 | - | - |
| moove | 10 | - | - |
| deeve | 9 | - | - |
| deave | 9 | - | - |
| drave | 9 | - | - |
| blive | 10 | - | - |
| calve | 10 | give birth to (a calf) | the whales calve at this time of year |
| clave | 10 | - | - |
| chave | 13 | - | - |
| chive | 13 | perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | - |
| cruve | 10 | - | - |
| awave | 11 | - | - |
| amove | 10 | - | - |
| poove | 10 | offensive term for a homosexual man | - |
| perve | 10 | - | - |
| preve | 10 | - | - |
| reive | 8 | - | - |
| rieve | 8 | - | - |
| shive | 11 | - | - |
| slove | 8 | - | - |
| slive | 8 | - | - |
| stive | 8 | - | - |
| swive | 11 | - | - |
| volve | 11 | - | - |
| varve | 11 | - | - |
| ogive | 9 | front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere | - |
| parve | 10 | containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | parvebread |
| wolve | 11 | - | - |
| cezve | 19 | - | - |
