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8-letter words ending in VE

157 words are exactly 8 letters long and ending in ve, about 0.4% of every eight-letter word.

Length 8 Letters VE

8-letter words ending in VE

157 of 157 shown

For example: abessive, conserve, emissive, infusive, outdrove, restrove.

abessive8
ablative8
abortive8
abrasive8
adaptive8
additive8
adessive8
adhesive8
adoptive8
agentive8
aggrieve8
allative8
allusive8
atchieve8
auditive8
autosave8
aversive8
burgrave8
coactive8
coderive8
coercive8
coevolve8
cohesive8
conative8
conceive8
conclave8
conserve8
contrive8
convolve8
creative8
crescive8
curative8
decisive8
deletive8
delusive8
denotive8
derisive8
descrive8
dilative8
dilutive8
disleave8
disprove8
disserve8
dissolve8
divisive8
donative8
durative8
eductive8
effusive8
egestive8
ejective8
elective8
emissive8
emulsive8
enactive8
engrieve8
engroove8
equative8
erective8
ergative8
eruptive8
evincive8
exaptive8
excusive8
exertive8
fixative8
foxglove8
fructive8
fruitive8
fugitive8
genitive8
heatwave8
ideative8
illative8
illusive8
inactive8
incisive8
inessive8
infusive8
ingroove8
innative8
invasive8
kidglove8
ladylove8
laxative8
lenitive8
ligative8
lipsalve8
locative8
mangrove8
margrave8
misdrive8
misdrove8
monitive8
mutative8
negative8
nosedive8
nosedove8
omissive8
optative8
orective8
outbrave8
outcurve8
outdrive8
outdrove8
outserve8
overgave8
overgive8
overlive8
overlove8
oversave8
palstave8
perceive8
picowave8
plausive8
positive8
postdive8
practive8
preserve8
presolve8
proclive8
punitive8
putative8
quietive8
reactive8
regroove8
relative8
repreeve8
reprieve8
restrive8
restrove8
retrieve8
ringdove8
rotative8
sanative8
sedative8
seducive8
solutive8
sorptive8
sportive8
subserve8
taxative8
tidewave8
totitive8
tractive8
trivalve8
truelove8
unactive8
univalve8
unnative8
vegetive8
vitative8
vocative8
volitive8
vomitive8
wayleave8
wirewove8

About 8-letter words ending in VE

Every word here is exactly 8 letters with ve locked into the final slot. Ranked 53 of 112, "ve" is a middling ending at this length: common enough to be worth guessing, rare enough that the list stays readable.

Two-letter endings do most of the grammatical work in English. Plurals, past tenses, comparatives and agent nouns all crowd onto a handful of final pairs, which is why some endings return hundreds of words and others barely clear the cutoff. Inside this set, the letter sitting immediately next to the fixed pair is most often I (109), O (16), A (13).

People search this one both ways round, as eight letter words ending in ve and as ve words 8 letters. Both mean the same thing, and this is the list. If the length is wrong, the sibling lengths are below.

Same ending, other lengths

Other endings at 8 letters

Quick answers

How many 8-letter words ending in ve are there?

157 of them, out of 40,649 eight-letter words, or about 0.4% of the length. Ranked 53 of 112, "ve" is a middling ending at this length: common enough to be worth guessing, rare enough that the list stays readable.

Why does this page only cover 8-letter words?

Because a length and an ending together are what you usually know. If you need a different size, the list below moves "ve" to the other lengths that have enough words to be worth a page. Dropping the length entirely gives you every word ending in E instead.

What usually comes next in these words?

The letter just inside the fixed pair is most often I (109), O (16), A (13). Two-letter endings do most of the grammatical work in English. Plurals, past tenses, comparatives and agent nouns all crowd onto a handful of final pairs, which is why some endings return hundreds of words and others barely clear the cutoff.

Do you have a page for every two-letter ending?

No, and deliberately so. A pair only gets a page when at least 35 eight-letter words share it. Below that the list is too short to be worth a visit, so we send you to the single-letter list instead.

Are proper nouns or abbreviations included?

No. Only standard dictionary words appear, which matches what Wordle, Scrabble, and crossword grids accept. A missing word is almost always a name, a hyphenation, or an abbreviation.

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