river: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with R · ends with R
Meaning of river
noun
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
Example: Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
Example: a river of blood
The last card dealt in a hand.
A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
Listed forms: rivers.
Source: Wiktionary — river.
verb
To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
Example: Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
Listed forms: rivers, rivering, rivered.
Source: Wiktionary — river.
noun
One who rives or splits.
Listed forms: rivers.
Source: Wiktionary — river.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is river in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of river
R(1) + I(1) + V(4) + E(1) + R(1) = 8 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 river
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 river
12 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in river. Showing up to 24, longest first.