The Only Playable Words in Scrabble that End with the Letter V

There are only 21 playable words in Scrabble that end with the letter "V", at least when the OWL2 official tournament word list is used. The list below has all such words presented in playrank order from the most often played word REV to the almost never played LEITMOTIV.

Words shown in red are played frequently enough to be worth memorizing. As one reads further down the list, the words become increasingly unlikely to be needed in a game and thus become less necessary to remember. Still, with only 21 of them (and some like MAGLEV being easily memorized) it might be worthwhile to just memorize them all.

1. rev
2. dev
3. tav
4. guv
5. lav
6. luv
7. lev
8. vav
9. perv
10. ganev
11. spiv
12. shiv

13. schav
14. maglev
15. improv
16. isogriv
17. moshav
18. tolarjev
19. stotinov
20. mazeltov
21. leitmotiv

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