This list contains 5 real five-letter words that end in V. Examples include GANEV, OLLAV, PAREV, SCHAV, SKEEV.
Generated from the bundled NYT Crossplay, Words With Friends, Scrabble US, Scrabble UK, and All Dictionaries data.
5 Letter Words Ending in V Results
Words below end in V.
How to use this word list
V is one of the rarest letters to end an English word with, and that shows here: only 5 five-letter words end in V. Native English almost never lets a word finish on V (historically it needed a silent E after it, as in “give” or “love”), so the handful that do exist are borrowed words, mostly Yiddish (GANEV, PAREV, SCHAV) and Irish (OLLAV), plus one bit of slang (SKEEV). With a list this short, there’s no real need for search or sorting, but they’re there if you want to check a Scrabble score at a glance.
Questions about this list
Only the fifth letter is fixed at V. Every entry on this list is a real five-letter word where the last letter happens to be V, regardless of where the word originally comes from.
English spelling almost never allows a word to end directly on V. Words with a V sound at the end, like “give” or “love”, are spelled with a silent E after it, which is why V-ending five-letter words are so rare.
Yes. They’re valid entries in word-game dictionaries, mostly loanwords from Yiddish (GANEV, PAREV, SCHAV) and Irish (OLLAV), so they may look unfamiliar even though they’re accepted in Scrabble and Words With Friends.
SCHAV scores highest at 13 points thanks to its H, followed by SKEEV at 12 because of the K. The rest sit in the 8 to 10 point range.
This page only filters within V-ending words. For rules on other letter positions, exclusions, or a specific rack of tiles, the main word finder supports all of those together.