5-Letter Words Ending With AVE
There are 22 five-letter words ending with AVE, including 11 common puzzle answers. A handy list for Wordle and other five-letter word games.
Popular 5-Letter Puzzle Words Ending With AVE
Common puzzle answers are everyday words of the kind word puzzles choose as solutions, most common first. Plurals and rare words are valid guesses but rarely answers, so they're listed separately below.
- LEAVE To go away from a place or person
- BRAVE Showing courage in the face of danger or difficulty
- GRAVE A place where a dead person is buried
- SHAVE The act of removing hair with a razor
- WEAVE To interlace strands to create fabric or cloth
- CRAVE To have a strong desire or appetite for something
- STAVE One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel
- HEAVE To lift or raise something with great effort
- SUAVE Smoothly charming and sophisticated in manner
- AGAVE A tropical plant with sword-shaped leaves and tall flower spikes
- KNAVE A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
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Useful Pattern Information
- Most common first letter: S (23%), C (14%), L (9%)
- Most common additional vowel: O, in 14% of these words
- Letters that most often appear alongside: R, S, L, G, H
- Most have 3 vowels (50%)
- 32% contain a repeated letter
- 11 of the 22 are common puzzle answers (50%)
Other Valid Words
11 additional dictionary words end with AVE — valid guesses, though rarely answers. Most common first.
- SLAVE
- CLAVE
- TRAVE
- SOAVE
- CHAVE
- REAVE
- DRAVE
- DEAVE
- AWAVE
- LOAVE
- GOAVE
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Generated from the TurnWord word database, the dictionary behind the Word Solver and Word Bot. Common puzzle answers are our curated answer list, the everyday words word puzzles tend to use as answers — not the official answer list of any game; every other word is a valid guess. Counts and statistics are computed from this list. Word database updated September 19, 2026.