5-letter words with V as the 4th letter and S as the 5th letter

Only 12 tournament-dictionary matches fit this pattern, and none belongs to our common-word group. The first letter splits across eight options: C, D, E, and S each occur twice, while G, M, O, and P occur once. Chavs and chivs lead the Scrabble scores at 13 points.

5-letter words with V as 4th and S as 5th

• Exactly 12 tournament-dictionary entries put V fourth and S fifth.
• All 12 end in S, so the final position never separates candidates.
• Chavs and chivs tie for the top Scrabble score at 13.
• Shivs follows at 11; pervs, spivs, mirvs, and omovs each score 10.
• Nine matches have definitions, but zero meet the common-word cutoff.

Which starting letters repeat?

Four initials repeat: C in chavs and chivs, D in deevs and dervs, E in erevs and eruvs, and S in shivs and spivs. The remaining starts—G, M, O, and P—each appear once, in gravs, mirvs, omovs, and pervs.

For a quick solve, test the four doubled starts before spending guesses on the singletons. The comparison is striking: the E-fourth/S-fifth pattern has 719 matches, against only 12 with V in that position. Here, V is the bottleneck; the shared final S contributes no further split.

Keep the names tied to their exact pattern. Chavs and chivs share C and the same top score; deevs and dervs share D but sit below the leaders at nine points. Pairing candidate spellings with opening tiles is less error-prone than treating all twelve as familiar words.

How does dictionary acceptance differ?

Collins includes all 12 matches; NWL2023 includes four, and ENABLE includes two. Those dictionary counts overlap, so the source totals are not separate piles to add together. Tournament acceptance therefore depends on which lexicon your game uses.

None ranks among our common words, and only nine have definitions in its word records. That is the practical limitation: several forms, including mirvs and eruvs, are obscure enough that you should check your game's word list once before playing.

For 5-letter words with V as 4th and S as 5th, Scrabble value clusters at the top: chavs and chivs score 13, then shivs scores 11. Those points are base letter totals, not a promise of a premium-square result; board placement changes the final score.