Words that end in V

What is in this list

This list holds 17 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. They run from 3 to 9 letters, and the most common length is 3 letters with 8 words (47.1% of the list). The shortest are DEV, GUV, LAV, LEV, LUV and REV; the longest is LEITMOTIV. Of the 12 lists in this group it is the 11th largest: “words that end in ED” leads with 13,318 and “words that end in J” has the fewest, 7.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 10.8 points (median 10); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 8.8, so this list runs 2 points richer. The top scorers are LEITMOTIV (16), MAGLEV (15), IMPROV (14), MOSHAV (14). Point for point, VAV earns the most per letter: 11 points over 3 letters, 3.7 each. V itself is worth 5 points here.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 34.2% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list.

How the words are built

The letter just before the final V is most often A (29.4% of words), followed by E (29.4%).

Word play in this list

No two words in this list are anagrams of each other. It contains 1 palindrome, read the same both ways: VAV. The longest word with no letter repeated is IMPROV (6 different letters). SCHAV is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel.

88.2% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (DEV, GANEV and GUV among them); after S, the most useful end letter is A, which extends 4 words. None of them can take a single letter in front and still be a word.

Using this list

The full list is short enough to read in one go: DEV, GANEV, GUV, IMPROV, ISOGRIV, LAV, LEITMOTIV, LEV, LUV, MAGLEV, MOSHAV, REV, SCHAV, SHIV, SPIV, TAV and VAV. Ranked by points it runs from LEITMOTIV (16) down to TAV (7), a spread of 9 points.