wave: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 10 letter points · starts with W · ends with E
Meaning of wave
verb
- intransitive
To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
Example: The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
- intransitive
To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- metonymically, transitive
To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
Example: I waved goodbye from across the room.
- intransitive
To have an undulating or wavy form.
Listed forms: waves, waving, waved.
Source: Wiktionary — wave.
noun
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
Example: The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
- poetic
The ocean.
A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
Example: Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
Example: Her hair had a nice wave to it.
Listed forms: waves.
Source: Wiktionary — wave.
verb
To generate a wave.
Listed forms: waves, waving, waved.
Source: Wiktionary — wave.
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 wave.
noun
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- moving ridge
noun
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
noun
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
noun
an undulating curve
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is wave in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of wave
W(4) + A(1) + V(4) + E(1) = 10 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 wave
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 wave
4 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in wave. Showing up to 24, longest first.