grave: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 9 letter points · starts with G · ends with E
Meaning of grave
noun
- countable, uncountable
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- broadly, countable, uncountable
Any place of interment.
- countable, uncountable
Any place containing one or more corpses.
- broadly, uncountable
Death, destruction.
Listed forms: graves.
Source: Wiktionary — grave.
verb
- archaic, transitive
To dig.
- archaic, intransitive
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- archaic, transitive
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
Example: to grave an image
- archaic, intransitive
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Listed forms: graves, graving, graved, graven.
Source: Wiktionary — grave.
adj
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- dated
Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Listed forms: graver, gravest.
Source: Wiktionary — grave.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for grave.
adjective
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
adjective
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
adjective
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
noun
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is grave in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of grave
G(2) + R(1) + A(1) + V(4) + E(1) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of grave
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from grave
21 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in grave. Showing up to 24, longest first.