7-letter words with U as the 2nd letter and V as the 6th letter

A V in sixth place forces an E in seventh, because English words almost never end in V. That makes this the smallest, tidiest frame in the U-second set. You can read the whole list in under a minute, and each word is accepted by Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE alike.

The whole U-and-V list at a glance

• 12 words match, and all 12 are in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE.
• 8 end in -IVE, 2 in -OVE and 2 in -AVE.
• OUT- begins 6 of the 12; S begins 2.
• JUSSIVE scores 17, SURVIVE and FURTIVE 13, and the average is 11.6.
• SURVIVE is the only word rated common.

Which words end in -IVE?

Eight of the 12 do: SURVIVE, FURTIVE, CURSIVE, OUTLIVE, OUTGIVE, TUSSIVE, JUSSIVE and SUASIVE. SURVIVE, FURTIVE and CURSIVE are the ones you will see in everyday text, and OUTLIVE is close behind.

TUSSIVE (relating to a cough), JUSSIVE (a command form in grammar) and SUASIVE (persuasive) are specialist terms that rarely come up outside word games.

Four of the eight take the -SIVE form: CURSIVE, TUSSIVE, JUSSIVE and SUASIVE. That shared tail means a rack with S, I, V and E already holds the back end of a third of the list, so the first three letters are the only real decision.

What are the OUT- words with V in sixth place?

OUTLIVE and OUTGIVE are -IVE words. The other four are OUTGAVE, OUTRAVE, OUTLOVE and OUTMOVE, which score 11, 10, 10 and 12 respectively. All six are verb forms built by adding OUT- to a short base, and all are legal in the main dictionaries.

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