Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like VE often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: above, agave, alive.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| above | 5 | 2 | |
| agave | 5 | 2 | |
| alive | 5 | 2 | |
| brave | 5 | 1 | |
| breve | 5 | 1 | |
| calve | 5 | 1 | |
| carve | 5 | 1 | |
| chive | 5 | 1 | |
| clave | 5 | 1 | |
| clove | 5 | 1 | |
| crave | 5 | 1 | |
| curve | 5 | 1 | |
| deave | 5 | 1 | |
| delve | 5 | 1 | |
| drave | 5 | 1 | |
| drive | 5 | 1 | |
| drove | 5 | 1 | |
| fauve | 5 | 1 | |
| glove | 5 | 1 | |
| grave | 5 | 1 | |
| grove | 5 | 1 | |
| halve | 5 | 1 | |
| heave | 5 | 1 | |
| helve | 5 | 1 | |
| keeve | 5 | 1 | |
| knave | 5 | 1 | |
| leave | 5 | 1 | |
| lieve | 5 | 1 | |
| mauve | 5 | 1 | |
| naive | 5 | 1 | |
| nerve | 5 | 1 | |
| nieve | 5 | 1 | |
| ogive | 5 | 2 | |
| olive | 5 | 2 | |
| parve | 5 | 1 | |
| peeve | 5 | 1 | |
| poove | 5 | 1 | |
| prove | 5 | 1 | |
| reave | 5 | 1 | |
| reeve | 5 | 1 | |
| reive | 5 | 1 | |
| salve | 5 | 1 | |
| serve | 5 | 1 | |
| shave | 5 | 1 | |
| shive | 5 | 1 | |
| shove | 5 | 1 | |
| sieve | 5 | 1 | |
| skive | 5 | 1 | |
| slave | 5 | 1 | |
| soave | 5 | 1 | |
| solve | 5 | 1 | |
| stave | 5 | 1 | |
| stove | 5 | 1 | |
| suave | 5 | 1 | |
| swive | 5 | 1 | |
| trave | 5 | 1 | |
| trove | 5 | 1 | |
| valve | 5 | 1 | |
| varve | 5 | 1 | |
| verve | 5 | 1 | |
| waive | 5 | 1 | |
| weave | 5 | 1 |
What’s typical about VE-ending words?
VE often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.